THE MINERAL DUFRENITE
Chemistry: Fe5(PO4)3(OH)5 - 2H2O, Hydrated Iron Phosphate Hydroxide.
Class: Phosphates
Uses: Only as mineral specimens.
Specimens
Dufrenite is a classic phosphate mineral. It is known from classic
localities in Devon, England and elsewhere. Often associated with other rare
minerals, dufrenite specimens can easily be a collectors favorite. Although
not particularly colorful unless fresh, dufrenite's muted yellowish-brown
color is none-the-less unique and distinctive. In fact, it produces a nice
backdrop to the more colorful minerals that may be attached to the rounded
botryoidal landscape.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Color is yellowish-green or olive when fresh but turns brown when oxidized.
Luster is varied from vitreous or silky to dull or earthy.
Transparency: Specimens are translucent to transparent.
Crystal System is monoclinic; 2/m
Crystal Habits include botryoidal and globular masses or tabular crystals.
Also found in radiating clusters and crusts.
Cleavage is perfect in two directions.
Fracture is uneven.
Hardness is 3.5 - 4.5
Specific Gravity is approximately 3.1 - 3.3 (slightly above average).
Streak is yellow-green.
Associated Minerals include hureaulite, laubmannite, kidwellite, quartz,
limonite and rockbridgeite.
Notable Occurrences include Cornwall, England; Westphalia, Germany; Anglar,
France and Cherokee County, Alabama, USA.
Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, color, associations and streak.
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Given this information - that Dufrenite has nothing whatsoever to do with
Diamond, it would make perfect Verant-sense to have Dufrenite dust be used
in a recipe that calls for diamond dust...
LOL!
-hax
> From: Ken Jordan <kjordan@...>
>
> Pretty sure it's Dufrenite.... that's the stuff used for the
> Totemic armor
> quests for Shamans in Lake Rathe. Well it's cheaper than
> tring to crush a
> diamond I guess ;> Anyone got the skill to try it ?
>
> Darkadvent - Cazic-Thule
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Shimanovsky <10815@...>
>
> Well I got really frastarated I tell ya looken for that
> Diamond Dust and
> Tattred Gnomish Cloak.
> so I petitioned, and the GM told me it was a Verant GM too,
> he told me that
> I should try Crushed Dauphire (not sure about spelling)
> instead of Diamond
> Dust. Also about tattred Gnomish Cloak, he said it DOES exist
> in the game
> but wont tell me if it is human made or not .
>