Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Allactite & Chlorophoenicite

Views:
Watches:
BCK553297

Allactite & Chlorophoenicite

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.7 × 0.5 × 0.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with some very nice bladed allactite crystals on rhodochrosite with some white hairs of chlorophoenicite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Allactite

Formula: 
Mn2+7(AsO4)2(OH)8
Strunz: 
8.BE.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Moss mine, Nordmark (Nordmarksberg), Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Chlorophoenicite

Formula: 
(Mn,Mg)3Zn2(AsO4)(OH,O)6
Strunz: 
8.BE.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
colorless
Type Locality: 
Buckwheat pit (Southwest opening; Buckwheat Mine), Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps