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Gainesite

Marcelle Weber collection
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Description
Locality: 
Nevel Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0 × 0 × 0 cm
Description

You are bidding on a tiny purple crystal fragment of extremly rare gainesite from the type and only locality for this very unusual phosphate. Formerly in the Marcelle Weber, Neal Yedlin, John Ebner and Curt Segeler collections. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gainesite

Formula: 
Na(Na,K)(Be,Li)Zr2(PO4)4·1.5-2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CA.20
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Nevel Quarry (Twin tunnels; United Feldspar Quarry), Newry, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

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