Triplite

An interesting combination of what I believe to be manganese oxides centered by a mound of Triplite. There are some opaque turquoise green areas in the Albite, and I’m just not sure what to make of it. The Morefield Mine started in 1929 and is a feldspar-mica and specimen mine in the Morefield pegmatite. A gift to George Loud from Scott Gillion in 1992.

Locality: Morefield Mine, Winterham, Amelia County, Virginia

Composition: manganese, iron, magnesium, and calcium phosphates, along with fluorine and/or hydroxide