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Niahite

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Niahite

Ted Bartels collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 1.4 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with some extremely rare radial clusters of niahite on matrix from one of three known localities for this rare Mn, NH4, phosphate. This particular sample is from PXRD analyzed material from the Ewald Gerstmann stock. Ted Bartels collection. 

Mineral Data
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Niahite

Formula: 
(NH4)(Mn2+,Mg)(PO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.20
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Niah Great Cave (Gunong Jerneb), Sarawak, Borneo Island, Malaysia

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