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Ferraioloite

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Ferraioloite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 1.9 × 3.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a small vug in vivianite hosting two tiny, pale yellow-green clusters of extremely rare ferriaoloite from the type and only locality for this complex phosphate species. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ferraioloite

Formula: 
MgMn42+(Fe2+0.5Al3+0.5)4Zn4(PO4)8(OH)4(H2O)20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic

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