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Goedkenite & Palermoite

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Goedkenite & Palermoite

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Description
Locality: 
Palermo 1 Mine, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.6 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some very beautiful cluster of palermo crystals hosting very nice goedkenite tablets on the terminations. Classic material from one of my favorite localities. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Goedkenite

Formula: 
Sr2Al(PO4)2(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BG.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine (Palermo No. 1 pegmatite; Hartford Mine; GE Mine), Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA

Palermoite

Formula: 
(Li,Na)2(Sr,Ca)Al4(PO4)4(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BH.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Vertically striated prisms.
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine (Palermo No. 1 pegmatite; Hartford Mine; GE Mine), Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA

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