| Locality type: | Quarry |
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| Species: | Rockbridgeite |
| Formula: | Fe2+Fe43+(PO4)3(OH)5 |
| Comments: | "A dark green to bluish green iron phosphate (rockbridgite) forms fibrous spherical intergrowths, globular crusts and rare sheaf-like tufts in cavities in the Wycheproof pegmatite veins. Individual spheres rarely exceed 0.5mm in diameter. The mineral is usually associated with cyrilovite, eosphorite, leucophosphite and rarely with kidwellite." |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Cyrilovite | ⓘ5 photos of Rockbridgeite associated with Cyrilovite at this locality. |
| Meurigite-K | ⓘ3 photos of Rockbridgeite associated with Meurigite-K at this locality. |
| Eosphorite | ⓘ2 photos of Rockbridgeite associated with Eosphorite at this locality. |
| Autunite | ⓘ1 photo of Rockbridgeite associated with Autunite at this locality. |
| Selwynite | ⓘ1 photo of Rockbridgeite associated with Selwynite at this locality. |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Rockbridgeite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australia |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (2 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 92978 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:92978:7 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 71939257-0f8f-4473-a805-4a55a4721ca1 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Rockbridgeite |
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| 66.2km (41.1 miles) | ⓘLake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia |
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 | | Report (issue) | | PHOSPHATE MINERALS OF VICTORIA W. D. Birch and D. A. Henry Editors Special photography by Francesco...Francesco Coffa THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA INC. SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 3. 7 Printed by McPherson's...Society of Victoria Inc. P.O. Box 12162, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne. Victoria. 3000 Australia (Tel. (03)...(03) 669 9892). National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 9594573 2 1 In this series: Special...Zeolites of Victoria. W. D. Birch (Editor). Copyright 1993. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria Inc. 11 |
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Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australia