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Bikitaite & Fluorapatite

David Burgess Collection
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.3 × 8 × 3.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a very large sample with a fracture surface that is host to hundreds of blades of bikitaite with brownish-violet fluorapatite from the world's best locality for this rare lithium zeolite. Old sample collected in the 1960's from the David Burgess collection. 

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

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