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Coskrenite-(Ce) & Apjohnite

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Coskrenite-(Ce) & Apjohnite

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Description
Locality: 
Alum Cave Bluff, Sevier County, Tennessee, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.6 × 1.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a beautiful and quite large cluster of pink coskrenite-Ce crystals standing up in vug of apjohnite. There are also several clusters buried in the apjohnite needles. From my personal collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Coskrenite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,Nd,La)2(C2O4)(SO4)2·12H2O
Strunz: 
10.AB.65
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Sevier Co., Tennessee, USA

Apjohnite

Formula: 
Mn2+Al2(SO4)4·22H2O
Strunz: 
7.CB.85
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Bahía de Maputo (Maputo Bay; Delagoa Bay; Lourenco Marques Bay), Maputo Province, Mozambique

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