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Whitlockite

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Whitlockite

Kay Robertson collection
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Description
Locality: 
Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 2.6 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a fantastic sample featuring large, perfect rhombs of whitlockite on matrix from the Tip Top Mine. Really exceptional and aesthetic sample from the Kay Robertson collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Whitlockite

Formula: 
Ca9Mg(PO4)6(HPO4)
Group Parent: 
Whitlockite Group
Strunz: 
8.AC.45
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 -
Colour: 
Colourless, grey-white, light pink, light yellow; colourless in transmitted light
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA

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