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Kosnarite

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Kosnarite

William Henderson collection
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Description
Locality: 
Mount Mica, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.6 × 0.6 cm
Description

A small fragment of matrix with a couple blue kosnarite crystals on quartz with carbonate-apatite from the type locality. Only around 125 specimens of this mineral were recovered from Mount Mica! Former William Henderson collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kosnarite

Formula: 
KZr2(PO4)3
Strunz: 
8.AC.60
Crystal System: 
Trigonal Pseudo-cubic
Hardness: 
4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mount Mica Quarry (Mount Mica Mine), Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

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