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Phosphosiderite — specimen 0606, photo © NMNHS
Phosphosiderite — specimen 0606, photo © NMNHS

Phosphosideritespecimen 0606

Origin

no locality data
Data

Weight: 5.00 ct; size: 13.79 | 9.81 | 4.80 mm; shape: oval; colour: medium bluish violet; slightly greyish; clarity: opaque; cut: fair; treatment: none.
Notes

Clean specimen; cabochon style cut.

Other specimens
Phosphosiderite — specimen 0605

More information from ‘Classification’


Typically an alteration product of triphylite in zoned complex granite pegmatites (Anthony et al., 2001—2005).