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Wickmanite & Calcite

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Wickmanite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood, Waratah-Wynyard Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 4.3 × 2.8 cm
Description

The main face of this specimen is covered with off white flattened calcite rhombs. The back of this specimen is actually the area of interest with small sugary orange yellow crystals of wickmanite in cavities with sugary albite, elbaite, schorl and quartz crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wickmanite

Formula: 
Mn2+[Sn(OH)6]
Strunz: 
4.FC.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
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