Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Perhamite

Views:
Watches:
BCK684459

Perhamite

David Burgess Collection
Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.4 × 5.3 × 3.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with exceptional clusters of perhamite plates on albite matrix with colorless groups of fluorapatite. A really nice example of this species with large clusters of crystals!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Perhamite

Formula: 
Ca3Al7.7Si3P4O23.5(OH)14.1·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DO.20
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps