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Heterosite

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Heterosite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Description

The Foote Mine is already famous for its number of minerals that have been found in euhedral crystals for the first time anywhere (eucryptite, lithiophilite, bikitaite, etc) and in 2011 we added another. This is a small matrix piece with brown, translucent, verified crystals of heterosite on matrix with a little matulaite as white spheres. Very rare!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Heterosite

Formula: 
(Fe3+,Mn3+)PO4
Strunz: 
8.AB.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Les Hureaux, Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France

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