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Earlshannonite & Strunzite

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Earlshannonite & Strunzite

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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: 
1.4 × 0.8 × 0.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with many nice orange balls of the "land mine" type of earlshannonite with strunzite and black balls of cryptomelane. A really nice and rare example of this type of earlshannonite from the Foote Mine. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Earlshannonite

Formula: 
Mn2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

Strunzite

Formula: 
Mn2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.25
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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