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Fairfieldite & Metaswitzerite

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Fairfieldite & Metaswitzerite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.3 × 5.6 × 4.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on an exceptional, large specimen with hundreds and hundreds of pale orange-yellow fairfieldite clusters in groups and single crystals across an albite fracture. On one end of the sample is a large area with very rich blades of metaswitzerite filling some vugs. This is an incredible sample from my personal Foote Mine collection. 

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

Metaswitzerite

Formula: 
Mn3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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