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Wickmanite & Parsettensite

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Wickmanite & Parsettensite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.2 × 1.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small matrix specimen with several confirmed octahedral crystals of wickmanite on albite with bertrandite and brown clusters of parsettensite. Only 7 known specimens of wickmanite exist from the Foote mine!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wickmanite

Formula: 
Mn2+[Sn(OH)6]
Strunz: 
4.FC.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Parsettensite

Formula: 
K1.2Mn8(Si,Al)12O26(OH)10
Strunz: 
9.EG.40
Hardness: 
1.5
Type Locality: 
Parsettens Alp, Tinizong (Tinzen), Oberhalbstein (Surses; Sursass), Albula Valley, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden), Switzerland

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