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Hentschelite

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Hentschelite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 2.8 × 0.7 cm
Description

Dark green hentschelite crystals in clusters richly covering the matrix, associated with an unknown light blue earthy mineral (possibly spertiniite).
A very good example of this rare copper-iron-phosphate.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hentschelite

Formula: 
CuFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
8.BB.40
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Point 20.0, Katzenstein, Raidelbach, Lautertal (Odenwald), Odenwald, Hesse, Germany
Cartils Minerals

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