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Parwanite & Taranakite

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Parwanite & Taranakite

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Description
Locality: 
Parwan Lava Caves, Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.5 × 0.3 cm
Description

Parwanite is a relatively new phosphate mineral approved in 2007 that occurs in only one locality worldwide, the Parwan Lave Caves in Australia, It occurs as white crystals in a brown matrix of taranakite. Very rare mineral species!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Parwanite

Formula: 
(Na,K)(Mg,Ca)4Al8(PO4)8(CO3)(OH)7·30H2O
Strunz: 
8.DO.40
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Parwan lava caves, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia

Taranakite

Formula: 
(K,NH4)Al3(PO4)3(OH)·9H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.25
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Sugar Loaves Islands, New Plymouth, Taranaki, North Island, New Zealand

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