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Footemineite Analcime & Eosphorite

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Footemineite Analcime & Eosphorite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2 × 0.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a fantastic sample of footemineite with several quite large, yellow crystals on a matrix of analcime crystals with many strange balls of pale eosphorite. This is type material and one of the best samples of this mineral I have ever offered. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Footemineite

Formula: 
Ca2Mn2+Mn2+2Mn2+2Be4(PO4)6(OH)4·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.10
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

Analcime

Formula: 
Na2(Al2Si4O12)·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.GB.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cyclopean Islands, Acitrezza (Aci Trezza), Etna Volcanic Complex, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy

Eosphorite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Fe2+)Al(PO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

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