Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Bikitaite & Fluorapatite

Views:
Watches:
BCK669430

Bikitaite & Fluorapatite

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 3.9 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with rich blades of bikitaite on a fracture surface with small druses of fluorapatite. As with most bikitaite samples from Foote, most of the larger crystals are etched and incomplete, but several small, terminated blades are present. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bikitaite

Formula: 
LiAlSi2O6·H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic There is also a Triclinic polytype.
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Nolan property, Bikita Area, Masvingo, Zimbabwe

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps