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Whitmoreite & Whitlockite

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Description
Locality: 
Palermo 1 Mine, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.3 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a vug hosting several very nice colorless whitlockite crystals that are donned with tiny little clusters of whitmoreite. A neat little micromount to be sure. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Whitmoreite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine (Palermo No. 1 pegmatite; Hartford Mine; GE Mine), Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA

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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