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William Henderson collection
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Locality: 
Bull Moose Mine, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1.2 × 1.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small matrix specimen with tiny but nice tavorite crystals in a vug of hureaulite. A rare locality for this lithium phosphate. Collected by Steve Cares.

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Formula: 
LiFe3+(PO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine (Proberil mine), Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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