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Ludlamite

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Ludlamite

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Description
Locality: 
San Antonio Mine, East Camp, Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.5 × 1.1 cm
Description

Ludlamitre is generally a more rare mineral, but even more rare and special from this locality. The specimen shows several exposed, highly lustrous crystals in intense green color on dark brown-red limonite matrix. Very aesthetic and very eye-ctaching thumbnail in excellent quality!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ludlamite

Formula: 
(Fe,Mn,Mg)3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Wheal Jane (Falmouth Consolidated Mines), Baldhu, Kea, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK