ANTHOINITE and MPOROROITE ps after SCHEELITE (ONE OF THE RAREST MINERALS IN THE WORLD), KARA MINE, HAMPSHIRE, TASMANIA
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ANTHOINITE and MPOROROITE ps after SCHEELITE (ONE OF THE RAREST MINERALS IN THE WORLD), KARA MINE, HAMPSHIRE, TASMANIA
$2,500.00
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MPOROROITE AND ANTHOINITE (and pseudomorfing Scheelite)
Mpororoite WAlO3(OH)3 · 2(H2O) has been identified on just five occasions, with one notable discovery and being the first outside Africa at the Kara Mine in Tasmania, which is the source of this particular specimen.
Mpororoite WAlO3(OH)3 · 2(H2O) has been identified on just five occasions, with one notable discovery and being the first outside Africa at the Kara Mine in Tasmania, which is the source of this particular specimen.
Additionally, it contains Anthoinite AlWO3(OH)3, a mineral that is essentially the dehydrated form of Mpororoite, and this has been recorded only 15 times. Both minerals occur as a "white" powdery mixture.
This specimen was collected in 1980 and studied. A treatise appeared in the Mineralogical Magazine (September 1984, Vol. 48, PP 397-400, written by Satoshi Matsubara, Akira Kato (National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan) and Kozo Nagashima (University of Tsubuka, Ibaraki, Japan)) about this extremely rare find. Now you can own it. It is one of the finest specimens around. You have to go to the Smithsonian to find a specimen like this one.
Named by O. von Knorring, T.G. Sahama, and M. Lehtinen in 1972 for the type locality; the Mpororo tungsten deposit in Uganda.
This specimen was collected in 1980 and studied. A treatise appeared in the Mineralogical Magazine (September 1984, Vol. 48, PP 397-400, written by Satoshi Matsubara, Akira Kato (National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan) and Kozo Nagashima (University of Tsubuka, Ibaraki, Japan)) about this extremely rare find. Now you can own it. It is one of the finest specimens around. You have to go to the Smithsonian to find a specimen like this one.
Named by O. von Knorring, T.G. Sahama, and M. Lehtinen in 1972 for the type locality; the Mpororo tungsten deposit in Uganda.
This specimen is from the Kara Mine (Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia) that is not known for any quantity, and it is an extremely rare find for this extremely scarce mineral.
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