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Friedelite

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Friedelite

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: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 4.2 × 5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a larger sample with a fine vug of sharp, hemimorphic tabular friedelite crystals with some prisms of willemite from perhaps the most famous find of the mineral. There are also crystals across the fracture on the bottom of the specimen. Very nice piece from the Ted Bartels collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Friedelite

Formula: 
(Mn,Fe)8Si6O15(OH,Cl)10
Strunz: 
9.EE.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Montagne d'Azet, Aderville, Louron Valley, Hautes-Pyrénées, Midi-Pyrénées, France...

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