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Paravauxite

Named after the Greek word para, meaning “near”, and for it’s chemically similarity to vauxite. Paravauxite is a rare mineral found in hydrothermal tin veins and granite pegmatites in localities including in Bolivia, the United States, Mexico, Germany, Portugal, and Sweden among just a couple others. Paravauzite can be found in association with vauxite, metavauxite, wavellite, sigloite, crandallite, childrenite, and quartz.
Ref. Handbook of Mineralogy, Anthony et al (1995) and MSA at http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/paravauxite.pdf
- Formula
- Fe2+Al2(PO4)2(OH)2·8H2O
- Crystal System
- Triclinic
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous - Pearly
- Color
- colorless, greenish white, light greenish white
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Triclinic - Pinacoidal
- Fracture
- Brittle - Conchoidal
- Hardness
- 3
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Paravauxite from Siglo Veinte mine, Llallagua, Bolivia

Free standing aqua-green, lustrous, bladed crystals to 1.5cm.
Paravauxite from Llallagua, Bolivia

White blades to 2mm.
Glassy, faint green prismatic crystals to 4mm with blue Vauxite.