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Calcioferrite

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Calcioferrite

Rare Mineral

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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: 
2.4 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample of pegmatite with a small vug hosting two perfect spheres of radial blades of calcioferrite. From a small, verified find in 2007. From my personal collection and a very rare mineral from the Foote Mine. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcioferrite

Formula: 
Ca2Fe3+2(PO4)3(OH)·7H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Battenberg, Grünstadt-Land, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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