Mounanaite

Origin: Mounana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon (type locality)
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
Deep red crust of mounanaite matrix with superb, well formed, bright orange and tabular crystals of francevillite to 0.75 mm.
Origin: Mounana mine, Fraceville, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon (type locality)
Ex. Kaar collection
Sample size: 3 x 3 x 3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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