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Formula: (Mn,Mg,Zn)3Zn2(AsO4)(OH,O)6
Anhydrous arsenate,
manganese-bearing mineral
Crystal System: Monoclinic
Specific gravity: 3.46 measured
Hardness: 3½
Streak: Colourless
Colour: Usually colourless to white or light gray-green in natural light; pink to light purplish red in strong
artificial light
Solubility: Soluble in acids
Environments:
Metamorphic environments
Hydrothermal environments
Chlorophoenicite is found in massive
franklinite-willemite ore at
Franklin,
New Jersey, USA, with calcite,
leucophoenicite,
tephroite, gageite and
pyrochroite.
At the type locality, Buckwheat pit, Franklin Mine, Franklin, New Jersey, USA chlorophoenicite
occurs in secondary veinlets in massive ore in a metamorphosed
sedimentary
zinc-iron-manganese deposit, associated with
leucophoenicite,
hodgkinsonite,
hetaerolite,
tephroite, gageite,
sclarite,
pyrochroite, willemite,
zincite, calcite,
baryte and franklinite
(HOM, AM53.1110-1119).
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