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Hureaulite & Metaswitzerite

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Hureaulite & Metaswitzerite

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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: 
6.5 × 4.2 × 2.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with very rich clusters of hureaulite in vugs of spodumene rich ore from the Foote Mine with accessory metaswitzerite blades, small crystals of rittmanite and mangangordonite. This is a very rich hureaulite from the Foote Mine and samples from there are exceedingly hard to find. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hureaulite

Formula: 
(Mn,Fe)5(PO4)2(HPO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CB.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Les Hureaux, Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France

Metaswitzerite

Formula: 
Mn3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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