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Allactite Baryte & Chlorophoenicite

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Allactite Baryte & Chlorophoenicite

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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.5 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a fracture surface lined with numerous brown lathes of allactite with rare yellow barite crystals and some sparse needles of chlorophoenicite. The rarest mineral on this specimen is the barite! Hard to find from Sterling Hill. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Allactite

Formula: 
Mn2+7(AsO4)2(OH)8
Strunz: 
8.BE.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Moss mine, Nordmark (Nordmarksberg), Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

Chlorophoenicite

Formula: 
(Mn,Mg)3Zn2(AsO4)(OH,O)6
Strunz: 
8.BE.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
colorless
Type Locality: 
Buckwheat pit (Southwest opening; Buckwheat Mine), Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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