| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Mining | A. A triclinic mineral, Ca2 (Mn, Fe)(PO4)2.2H (sub 2) O; transparent pearly to subadamantine; in granite pegmatites in Fairfield County, CT, as an alteration of dickinsonite and a pseudomorph after rhodochrosite.b. The mineral group cassidyite, collinsite, fairfieldite, messelite, and roselite-beta. Syn: leucomanganite. (references) | ||
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