Mineralpedia Details for Ferrolaueite
Ferrolaueite
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- Formula
- Fe2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2ยท8H2O
- Crystal System
- Triclinic
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Color
- brownish yellow, light yellow
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Triclinic
- Hardness
- 3
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Ferrolaueite from White Cap mine, Pennington Co., South Dakota, United States
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- Special Info
- Anatoly Kasatkin photo & identification. EDS/XRD
Murky orange-yellow parallel groups of platy Ferrolaueite. Collected by Tom Loomis in 2001.
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Ferrolaueite from My Creek locality, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, United States
- Special Info
- Type Locality
A small 1cm specimen with two micro, less than 1mm, crystals of orange Ferrolaueite. Ferrolaueite is a very rare iron phosphate occuring in five localities worldwide. All but one localities are pegmatites. Ferrolaueite was finally described in 2012. This specimen, as stated on the Excalibur label, is ex. Curt Segeler (Segelerite), one of the authors. It is from the type locality.
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