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Alleghanyite Clinohedrite & Zincite

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Alleghanyite Clinohedrite & Zincite

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Description
Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 1.5 × 2.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen hosting rich patches of pink alleghanyite intermixed with zincite. In a few places vugs host tiny but sharp pink, striated alleghanyite crystals with minute yellow clinohedrite(?) crystals growing on the altered zincite. This is very old material originally misidentified as leucophoenicite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Alleghanyite

Formula: 
Mn2+5(SiO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.AF.45
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Bald Knob, Sparta, Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States of America

Clinohedrite

Formula: 
CaZn(SiO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
9.AE.30
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

Zincite

Formula: 
(Zn,Mn2+,Fe2+)O
Strunz: 
4.AB.20
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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