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Footemineite

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Footemineite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.4 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on an excellent specimen of very rare footemineite from the Bob Rothenberg collection. This is one of the rarest minerals at the Foote Mine and was described in 2006. The small slab of albite hosts over 30 small, yellow barrel shaped crystals of footemineite with strange lathe-like crystals of milarite (?, this material needs more study) and minor fairfieldite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Footemineite

Formula: 
Ca2Mn2+Mn2+2Mn2+2Be4(PO4)6(OH)4·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.10
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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