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Eveite & Sarkinite

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Eveite & Sarkinite

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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.3 × 0.2 × 0.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a tiny fragment of matrix hosting several small, partial brown prisms of etremely rare eveite on a bed of crystalline sarkinite. This is a confirmed sample from the Fred DeVito collection. This is the eveite collected and documented during the investigation of kraisslite (see descripton paper). 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eveite

Formula: 
Mn2+2(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.30
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Sarkinite

Formula: 
Mn2+2(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.15
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Persberg district, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

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