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Alleghanyite & Sussexite

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Alleghanyite & Sussexite

Omer Dean and George Elling collections
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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: 
6.4 × 4.9 × 3.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large, and extremely rich sample of sussexite with very rich, velvety sprays and veins of white sussexite with very rich pink crystals of alleghanyite. From the Omer Dean and George Elling collections. Very rich! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Alleghanyite

Formula: 
Mn2+5(SiO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.AF.45
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Bald Knob, Sparta, Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States of America

Sussexite

Formula: 
Mn2+BO2(OH)
Strunz: 
6.BA.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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