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Baryte & Chlorophoenicite

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Baryte & Chlorophoenicite

George Elling collection
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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.8 × 3.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large and very unusual sample from the George Elling collection. A large section of calcite ore hosts a large vug on one corner with a very sizable cluster of white chlorophoenicite neeldes and numerous sharp prisms of barite with rhodochrosite and other species. Very atypical of the normal occurence of both species. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

Chlorophoenicite

Formula: 
(Mn,Mg)3Zn2(AsO4)(OH,O)6
Strunz: 
8.BE.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
colorless
Type Locality: 
Buckwheat pit (Southwest opening; Buckwheat Mine), Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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