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Kastningite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 3.5 × 1.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with a vug that is hosting an exceptional cluster of bladed kastningite crystals from the Foote Mine. These are very large crystals for the locality, and have perfect terminations and transparency. Collected in October of this year in a lucky find on the dumps. By some measure the best sample of the mineral from the Foote Mine that I have offered. 

Happy Holidays from Bucket Of Holes!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kastningite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Fe2+,Mg)Al2(PO4)2(OH)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.30
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Silbergrube, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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