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Fairfieldite from
La Mareta, Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Species:Fairfieldite
Formula:Ca2Mn2+(PO4)2 · 2H2O
Comments:The paper doesn't inform about any analytical details that could confirm this identification.

The list of minerals is absolutely unbelievable and also impossible: numerous rare and ultra-rare species that are typical for completely different environments.

"Interesting": a lava flow that contains ultra-rare peralkaline/sodalitite pegmatites, LCT pegmatites, metamanganolites, and sedimentary vanadium deposits............. ?

Fairfieldite........................ ;-) So now we add phosphate pegmatites to the evergrowing list of Tenerife's potential of the local lava flows?
Confirmation
Validity:Erroneously Reported
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fairfieldite data
Locality Data:Click here to view La Mareta, Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1620393
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1620393:6
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Dill, Harald Gerold, RÞsenberg, Kurt Anton (2023) Marker Minerals in Volcanics and Xenoliths—An Approach to Categorize the Inferred Magmatic Rocks Underneath the Present-Day Volcanic Landscape of Tenerife, Spain (NW African Rare Mineral Province) Minerals, 13 (11) 1410 doi:10.3390/min13111410
 
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