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Curetonite

Dan Behnke collection
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Description
Locality: 
Redhouse Barite Mine, Potosi District, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.2 × 0.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with exceptional crystals of curetonite on barite from the type and only locality for the species. Free-growing crystals of the mineral are very rare and hard to find! Comes with two original slides taken by Dan. The collection index card has been lost. 

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

Curetonite

Formula: 
Ba4Al3Ti(PO4)4(O,OH)6
Strunz: 
8.BK.15
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Redhouse Barite Mine, Potosi District, Osgood Mts, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA

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