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Goosecreekite

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Goosecreekite

Dan Behnke collection
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Description
Locality: 
New Goose Creek Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 0.9 × 0.9 cm
Description

ILLUSTRATED!! You are bidding on a small sample with at least a dozen small crystals of rare goosecreekite on prehnite matrix from the type locality for the species. Was illustrated in Photo Atlas of Minerals 2007 edition. Comes with two original slides (scanned and shown here) and original index card.

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

Goosecreekite

Formula: 
Ca[Al2Si6O16]·5H2O
Strunz: 
9.GB.25
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
New Goose Creek Quarry (Luck Company Quarry), Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Virginia, USA

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