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Lansfordite

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Lansfordite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Gila Bend Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some small crystal groups of rare lansfordite growing in a cactus skeleton! There are also some altered lansfordite crystals that have transformed into nesquehonite. Weird and rare!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lansfordite

Formula: 
MgCO3·5H2O
Strunz: 
5.CA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Nesquehoning Coal Mine, Nesquehoning, Lansford, Carbon Co., Pennsylvania, USA

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