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Kosnarite

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Kosnarite

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Description
Locality: 
Taquaral Seco Mine, Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 4.1 × 1.7 cm
Description

Wonderful colourless kosnarite crystals cover this display specimen from a new occourence of this rare phosphate : the Taquaral Seco mine in Taquaral municipality ; purchased on january in Taquaral

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kosnarite

Formula: 
KZr2(PO4)3
Strunz: 
8.AC.60
Crystal System: 
Trigonal Pseudo-cubic
Hardness: 
4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mount Mica Quarry (Mount Mica Mine), Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, USA