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Kidwellite On Goethite Psm Pyrite

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Kidwellite On Goethite Psm Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 3.3 × 3.8 cm
Description

A real oddity, goethite has completely repaced pyrite from Iron Monarch opencut. This is only the second such specimen I have seen.

The goethite on the base where this specimen was removed from the host rock shows typical foliated  botyroidal goethite formation with curving bands of crystals.

Kidwellite as white mounds has formed on both the exterior of the pseudomorph as wellas in some of the void where the bands of goethite intersect.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kidwellite

Formula: 
NaFe3+9(PO4)6(OH)11·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.20
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
yellow
Type Locality: 
Fodderstack Mountain, Norman, Montgomery Co., Arkansas, USA

Goethite

Formula: 
α-Fe3+O(OH)
Strunz: 
4.00.
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Hollertszug Mine (Hollerter Zug Mine), Dermbach, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
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