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Parascholzite & Kingsmountite

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Parascholzite & Kingsmountite

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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: 
3.3 × 2.4 × 2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample of altered pegmatite containing a vug lined with numreous bladed crystals of parascholzite. Almost the entire vug is lined with these crystals. There are also tiny white spheres of zinc bearing kingsmountite here and there. Parascholzite is extremely rare at the Foote Mine with only a few samples known. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Parascholzite

Formula: 
CaZn2(PO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CA.45
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

Kingsmountite

Formula: 
Ca4(Fe2+,Mn2+)Al4(PO4)6(OH)4·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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