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Vivianite

Dan Behnke collection
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Locality: 
Clear Spring Mine, Homeland, Polk County, Florida, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with an excpetional, perfect 5.8mm vivianite crystal on matrix from this phosphate quarry in Florida. The crystal still looks as fresh aas the day Dan photographed it in 1982. Comes with three original slides scanned and shown here. 

This sample is from the collection of Dan Behnke, long-time friend, micromounter and prodigious photographer. I am pleased to be able to offer selections from his large collection, many of which are illustrated specimens in Rocks & Minerals, The Mineralogiocal Record, Photo Atlas of Minerals and many other publications. All samples from his meticulously catalogued collection will come with his original index card with all notes, photography annotations and other pertinent information, as well as any slides Dan may have taken of the sample with publication notes and date the photo was made.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vivianite

Formula: 
Fe2+3(PO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.40
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Wheal Kind (Wheal Kine), West Wheal Kitty group, St Agnes, St Agnes District, Cornwall, England, UK

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