A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Triphylite |
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| Description | Triphylite (bluish mineral), Li(Fe,Mn)PO4, is a rather scarce phosphate mineral. Here it is found in a pegmatite with quartz, muscovite and K-feldspar. Triphylite is closely related to lithiophilite; the two minerals only differ in Mn to Fe ratios. It often alters to form other phosphate minerals. It is generally fine-grained and massive, but it can form euhedral (well-developed) crystals, although rare. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2002-02-28. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1011. |
| Key words | triphylite |
| Tech details | 548 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 2479 |
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