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Sonolite Allactite Baryte & Kraisslite

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Sonolite Allactite Baryte & Kraisslite

George Elling collection
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.4 × 6.8 × 2.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with a the entire top of the specimen covered in hundreds of pink crystals of sonolite with yellow barite prisms, dark red blades of allactite and sparse, brown patches of small kraisslite crystals. Very good specimen of this unusual assemblage from the George Elling collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sonolite

Formula: 
Mn2+9(SiO4)4(OH,F)2
Strunz: 
9.AF.55
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Sono mine, Wazuka-cho, Sohraku-gun, Kyoto Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu Island, Japan

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

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

Kraisslite

Formula: 
Zn3(Mn,Mg)25(Fe3+,Al)(As3+O3)2[(Si,As5+)O4]10(OH)16
Strunz: 
8.BE.45
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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