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Lithiophilite Fluorapatite Swinefordite & Bertrandite

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Lithiophilite Fluorapatite Swinefordite & Bertrandite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.2 × 2.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a beautiful and rich sample of lithiophilite from the best locality for the mineral. A fracture surface and several vugs host nests of pinkish orange lithiophilite crystals with a few pale blue apatite crystals, blades of bertrandite and swinefordite (like skin). A fine and rare sample collected at the very bottom of the quarry before mining ceased in 1993. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lithiophilite

Formula: 
LiMn2+PO4
Strunz: 
8.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Swinefordite

Formula: 
Li(Al,Li,Mg)4((Si,Al)4O10)2(OH,F)4·nH2O
Strunz: 
9.EC.45
Hardness: 
1.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

Bertrandite

Formula: 
Be4(Si2O7)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Petit-Port, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de Loire, France

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