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Matulaite & Variscite

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Description
Locality: 
Bachman Mine, Hellertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 3 × 2.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with rich, complete clusters of matulaite crystals lining fractures and vug on matrix with small prisms of varsicite. Collected by William Henderson in 1983. Rich and rare!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Matulaite

Formula: 
(Fe3+,Al)Al7(PO4)4(PO3OH)2(OH)8(H2O)8·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.30
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Bachman Mine, Hellertown, Lower Saucon Township, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania, USA

Variscite

Formula: 
AlPO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Meßbach Quarry, Meßbach, Plauen, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany

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