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Eakerite

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Eakerite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.8 × 1.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small matrix specimen with many small crystals of eakerite among quartz and bavenite hairs. There are also a few very small crystals of tetrawickmanite present, too small to photograph.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eakerite

Formula: 
Ca2SnAl2Si6O18(OH)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.CG.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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