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Eakerite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small, but very high quality sample of eakerite with some quite large prisms of the mineral in several vugs on matrix with needles of bavenite. Collected in 1981!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eakerite

Formula: 
Ca2SnAl2Si6O18(OH)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.CG.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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