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Allactite

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Allactite

George Elling collection
Rare Mineral

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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 × 2.8 × 2.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniture sample with fractures on both sides of the sample hosting small, pinkish brown, striated tabular allactite crystals on rhodochrosite with needles of chlorophoenicite. This is an unusual habit of allactite from the locality. 

Mineral Data
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Allactite

Formula: 
Mn2+7(AsO4)2(OH)8
Strunz: 
8.BE.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Moss mine, Nordmark (Nordmarksberg), Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

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