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Fairfieldite

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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: 
2.4 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a very unusual small cluster of bright red fairfieldite crystals on albite. This red fairfieldite was only found once in 1986 and I do not think it was ever analyzed. Only about 15 specimens were recovered. A very rare and unusual sample from the Foote Mine. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fairfieldite

Formula: 
Ca2(Mn2+,Fe2+)(PO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.05
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

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