Mineralpedia Details for Wardite
Wardite
- Formula
- NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4ยท2H2O
- Crystal System
- Tetragonal
- Crystal Habit
- Encrustations, Radial, Fibrous
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- blue green, colorless, white, light green
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Tetragonal - Trapezohedral
- Hardness
- 5
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Wardite from Little Green Monster mine, Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah Co., Utah, United States
Aqua blue, translucent, pseudo-octahedral crystals to 1mm. This is a pretty nice specimen, considering that most of the LGM Wardite occurs as just a blue crust. These crystals are unusually distinct. Associated with yellow Crandallite and Apatite.
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Wardite from Lavra Da Ilha, Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Colorless, murky white with good form and 1.2cm across. The matrix is Quartz and it is associated with reddish brown Eosphorite.
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Wardite from Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada
Superb 8-9mm striated crystals.
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