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Iowaite

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Description
Locality: 
Palabora Mine, Loolekop, Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.8 × 0.2 cm
Description

A very good group of sharp brown-golden iowaite crystals.

 

From a small find in the mid 1990s.

Up to now the best known samples of this mineral.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Iowaite

Formula: 
Mg6Fe3+2(OH)16Cl2·4H2O
Strunz: 
4.FL.05
Hardness: 
1.5
Type Locality: 
Unnamed drill core, Sioux Co., Iowa, USA

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