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Tavorite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Mina Julita, Garcirrey, Salamanca, Castile & León, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Beautiful green microcrystals of the very rare phosphate mineral tavorite in vugs of the rockbridgeite-barbosalite matrix.

With minor hureaulite.

Collected in the 1990s

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tavorite

Formula: 
LiFe3+(PO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine (Proberil mine), Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil