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Churchite-(Y)

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Churchite-(Y)

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Description
Locality: 
Indian Mountain, Cherokee County, Alabama, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 4.1 × 2.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a larger sample that is covered with dozens of small, perfect white sprays of churchite on matrix from Indian Mountian. The mineral is actually quite rare here and good, clean samples are very hard to find. Collected in 1981. 

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Churchite-(Y)

Formula: 
Y(PO4)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CJ.50
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Maffei Mine (Nitzelbuch Mine), Nitzlbuch (Nitzelbuch), Auerbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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