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Schertelite

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Description
Locality: 
Skipton Caves, Mount Widderin, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.4 × 0.3 × 0.3 cm
Description

Colorless-pale beige crystal aggregates of the extremely rare ammonium phosphate mineral schertelite from the type locality in Australia, and only one of the two known localities worldwide.

A phosphate mineral found in bat guano deposits.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Schertelite

Formula: 
(NH4)2MgH2(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Skipton Caves (Skipton lava caves; Mt Widderin Caves), Mt. Widderin (Anderson's Hill), Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia...

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