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Phosphosiderite On Triplite With Barbosalite

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Phosphosiderite On Triplite With Barbosalite

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Description
Locality: 
Bull Moose Mine, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 4.3 × 3.2 cm
Description

Pink transparent phosphosiderite crystals on a matrix of triplite witha some micro barbosalite crsytals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Phosphosiderite

Formula: 
FePO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Kalterborn Mine, Eiserfeld, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Triplite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Fe2+)2(PO4)(F,OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.10
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Chanteloube, Razès, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France

Barbosalite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
8.BB.40
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine (Proberil mine), Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Earthstones Australia

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