Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Goedkenite Palermoite & Whitlockite

Views:
Watches:
BCK636552

Goedkenite Palermoite & Whitlockite

Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Palermo 1 Mine, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with numerous "flagpoles" of palermoite with single goedkenite crystals on top. There are also numerous tiny, single crystals of goedkenite and a large crystal of whitlockite. Very rich piece!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Goedkenite

Formula: 
Sr2Al(PO4)2(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BG.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine (Palermo No. 1 pegmatite; Hartford Mine; GE Mine), Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA

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

Whitlockite

Formula: 
Ca9Mg(PO4)6(HPO4)
Group Parent: 
Whitlockite Group
Strunz: 
8.AC.45
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 -
Colour: 
Colourless, grey-white, light pink, light yellow; colourless in transmitted light
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps