eosphorite

[ē′äs·ə·fə‚rīt]

(mineralogy)

(Mn,Fe)Al(PO₄)(OH)₂·H₂O A usually rose-pink mineral composed of hydrous aluminum manganese phosphate, found massive or in prismatic crystals.

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The mine has produced an interesting suite of minerals in recent years, including pale blue to green aquamarine, alpine-like smoky quartz crystals, spessartine, danburite, columbite, cassiterite, helvite, and numerous phosphates including apatite, lithiophilite, purpurite, herderite, strengite, phosphosiderite, hureaulite, robertsite, eosphorite, frondelite and mitridatite (A.

Gem and rare-element pegmatites of Southern California

Minerals in the pegmatite are: quartz, microcline, muscovite, albite, amblygonite, "apatite," beryl, uraninite, elbaite, members of the tantalite group, secondary uranium minerals, triphylite, triplite, purpurite, rockbridgeite, tavorite, barbosalite, hureaulite, eosphorite, phosphosiderite, carlhintzeite, colquirite, pachnolite, ralstonite and fluellite.

ABSTRACTS OF NEW MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS

Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil) had about 75 specimens, found last October, of ernstite-coated eosphorite from the Almerino mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais; they are by far the best yet of this familiar material.

What's New in Minerals

Correia Neves and Lopes Nunes (1968) described bermanite, eosphorite, variscite, phosphosiderite, hureaulite, montebrasite, fluorapatite, amblygonite, and triplite from Alto Ligonha pegmatites.

Correia Neves and Lopes Nunes (1968) described eosphorite, variscite, phosphosiderite, hureaulite, montebrasite, fluorapatite, amblygonite, triplite and bermanite from Alto Ligonha pegmatites.

Correia Neves and Lopes Nunes (1968) described hureaulite, montebrasite, fluorapatite, amblygonite, triplite, phosphosiderite, variscite, eosphorite and bermanite from Alto Ligonha pegmatites.

THE ALTO LIGONHA PEGMATITES MOZAMBIQUE

Accompanying minerals such a roscherite and eosphorite are highly characteristic of this occurrence.

LAVRA BERILO BRANCO: THE ORIGINAL "SAPUCAIA" ROSE QUARTZ OCCURRENCE, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL

Additional minerals present include zircon, gahnite, minor spessartine, hectorite and coronadite, and secondary phosphates fluorapatite, eosphorite and crandallite.

Albite Beryl Covellite Gahnite Fluorapatite Digenite Lithiophilite Gahnite Galena Spessartine Manganocolumbite Hessite Triplite Microcline Triploidite Muscovite Secondary Triphylite Pyrochlore Minerals UK-1 Quartz Chrysocolla Zircon Rutile (niobian) Malachite Schorl UK-2 Secondary Phosphates Spessartine Crandallite Spodumene Eosphorite Uranmicrolite Fluorapatite Uranpyrochlore Zircon Secondary Minerals Coronadite Hectorite

Mineralogy of the Boqueiraozinho pegmatite: Parelhas Rio Grande do Norte Brazil

One other item of interest was wardite crystals associated with childrenite and eosphorite, from the famous locality of Rapid Creek, Yukon.

Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Show 1996

Associated minerals: albite, quartz, manganoan almandine, muscovite, siderite, fluorapatite, elbaite, lepidolite, beryl, montebrasite, rhodochrosite, cassiterite, manganocolumbite, uraninite, lollingite, zircon, eosphorite, moraesite, ferroan roscherite and kosnarite.

Associated minerals in the cavities are: wardite, eosphorite, cyrilovite, a kidwellite-like mineral, rockbridgeite, leucophosphite, saleeite and montmorillonite.