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Metaswitzerite & Eucryptite

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Metaswitzerite & Eucryptite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 3.7 × 2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a miniature sample with several areas hosting very nice, pale pink tabular crystals of metaswitzerite in association with abundant single crystals of eucryptite. A very rare and and unusual combination piece from my personal Foote Mine stock. Collected by Jack Eaker in the 1960s. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metaswitzerite

Formula: 
Mn3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

Eucryptite

Formula: 
LiAlSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

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