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Palermoite & Childrenite

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Description
Locality: 
Palermo 1 Mine, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.6 × 1.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on an exceptional sample with numerous perfect, sharp, transparent palermoite crystals in vugs of sceptered quartz and siderite. The palermoite crystals have tiny barbosalite crystals attached, and are accompanied by many tabular childrenite crystals. There is also a very large palermoite crystal with interesting parallel growth features. A very aesthetic sample from my personal Palermo collection. Collected by Mike Swanson. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Palermoite

Formula: 
(Li,Na)2(Sr,Ca)Al4(PO4)4(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BH.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Vertically striated prisms.
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine (Palermo No. 1 pegmatite; Hartford Mine; GE Mine), Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA

Childrenite

Formula: 
(Fe2+,Mn2+)Al(PO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.20
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tavistock District, Devon, England, UK

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