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Clinohedrite & Charlesite

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Clinohedrite & Charlesite

Steven Phillips collection
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Description
Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.4 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a group of completely transparent, very pale lilac clinohedrite crystals in a large vug on the top of the sample, with a small vug near the bottom that is hosting small, very rare charlesite crystals and hancockite. The clinohedrite crystals are so transparent that they are nearly impossible to photograph. Originally mounted by Alice Kraissl and in the Steve Phillips collection of F/SH micromounts and rarities. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Clinohedrite

Formula: 
CaZn(SiO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
9.AE.30
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

Charlesite

Formula: 
Ca6(Al,Si)2(SO4)2[B(OH)4](OH,O)12·26H2O
Strunz: 
7.DG.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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