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Lavendulan Sarkinite & Copper

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Lavendulan Sarkinite & Copper

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 × 1.7 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a nice patch of small radial clusters of lavendulan in a vug with tiny sarkinite crystals and cuprite. There is also a quite large cube of native copper present on the sample that is coated with copper secondaries and accompanied by some larger, altered sarkinite crystals. Lavendulan is very rare at Sterling Hill. Ted Bartels collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lavendulan

Formula: 
NaCaCu5(AsO4)4Cl·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DG.05
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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

Copper

Formula: 
Cu
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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