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Wayneburnhamite Ganomalite & Stringhamite

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Wayneburnhamite Ganomalite & Stringhamite

Fred DeVito collection
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Description
Locality: 
Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, Riverside County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 0.9 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small mounted sample with some small, bright blue crystalline patches of the new species wayneburnhamite with radial sprays of ganomalite and a tiny patch of stringhamite from the type locality. Very few samples of this species are in private hands, and the samples with crystals number less than 8. From the Fred DeVito collection long before the species was described. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wayneburnhamite

Formula: 
Pb9Ca6(Si2O7)3(SiO4)3
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
Colour: 
Sky Blue
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, Riverside County, California, United States of America
Isostructural with: 
Ganomalite

Ganomalite

Formula: 
Pb9Ca5Mn(Si2O7)4(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.BG.25
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Stringhamite

Formula: 
CaCu(SiO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
9.AE.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Bawana Mine (Old Hickory mine), Rocky District, Rocky Range, Beaver Co., Utah, USA

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