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Kapundaite & Leucophosphite

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Kapundaite & Leucophosphite

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Description
Locality: 
Toms Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

A good sample of golden yellow, acicular crystals of rare kapundaite from the type locality with reddish leucophosphite crystals groups. Good specimen.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kapundaite

Formula: 
NaCaFe4(PO4)4(OH)3·5H2O
Hardness: 
3.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
yellow
Type Locality: 
Tom's quarry (Tom's Phosphate quarry; Clutterbuck Bros; PM 315; Sobey; BHP; ML 4993), Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia...

Leucophosphite

Formula: 
KFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.10
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ninghanboun Hills serpentinite, Weelhamby Lake, Perenjori Shire, Western Australia, Australia

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