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Fairfieldite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
LCA Mine, Bessemer City, Gaston County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.8 × 2.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some nice brown to yellow clusters of fairfieldite in a pegmatite vug from this sister locality to the Foote Mine. Fairfieldite is quite rare here!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fairfieldite

Formula: 
Ca2(Mn2+,Fe2+)(PO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.05
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

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