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Whiteite-(CaMnMn)

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Whiteite-(CaMnMn)

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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: 
5.1 × 3.4 × 2.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with a fracture surface hosting rich, small tan clusters of whiteite-CaMnMn with minor kingsmountite, vivianite/santabarbaraite and eosphorite. This is one of the richest specimens of the species I collected and was verified by EDS during the study of the kingsmountite group minerals found at the Foote Mine. Collected 2012. 

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Whiteite-(CaMnMn)

Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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