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Lithiophilite

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Lithiophilite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 4.6 × 3.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a rather large sample with some quite large, and unusal, tabular crystals of lithiophilite on the side of one fracture. There is also a small, perfect crystal in one of the vugs. Associated with skin-like swinefordite. A little damage to the specimen but large crystals of this mineral are very rare here! 

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

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