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Whitlockite

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Whitlockite

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Locality: 
Palermo 1 Mine, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1.5 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on an exceptional specimen of whitlockite with numerous tack sharp, transparent whitlockite crystals on quartz matrix. A really top-notch specimen of the mineral from its type locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Whitlockite

Formula: 
Ca9Mg(PO4)6(HPO4)
Group Parent: 
Whitlockite Group
Strunz: 
8.AC.45
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 -
Colour: 
Colourless, grey-white, light pink, light yellow; colourless in transmitted light
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA

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