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Goyazite - Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada
(#:MINS8937)
A really niced phosphate specimen from the famed Rapid Creek locality in the far northern part of the Yukon of Canada. This piece features a coverage of sharp, well-formed, pseudo-cubic (trigonal) crystals of the uncommon strontium aluminum phosphate species, Goyazite measuring up to 4 mm, sitting on matrix.
Formula :
SrAl
3
[(OH)
6
/PO
3
(OH)/PO
4
]
System:
trigonal
Hardness:
4½-5
Rarity:
not common
Strunz id:VII/B.36-30 - PHOSPHATES, ARSENATES and VANADATES
Name origin:
Named in 1884 by Augustin Alexis Damour for the province of Goyaz (now Goiás), Brazil. (Note: Although the mineral type locality is in the province of Minas Gerais, the mineral is named after the neighboring province.)
Specimen weight:68 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 4 mm
Overall size: 60mm x 32 mm x 33 mm
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