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Eakerite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.6 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a vug full of dozens of small prisms of eakerite on albite from the type locality. Very rich sample and much better than my photos imply. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eakerite

Formula: 
Ca2SnAl2Si6O18(OH)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.CG.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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