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Lithiomarsturite

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Lithiomarsturite

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Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 0.6 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small matrix specimen with some very good lithiomarsturite crystals with apatite and bavenite in vugs in albite. One of my last specimens of this rare species that isn't in my personal collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lithiomarsturite

Formula: 
LiCa2Mn2Si5O14(OH)
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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