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Brannockite & Lithiomarsturite

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Brannockite & Lithiomarsturite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature with a large vug hosting a very interesting paragenesis with a large cluster of brannockite crystals, blades and sprays of bavenite, fluorapatite crystals and several etched, pale yellow lithiomarsturite prisms. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Brannockite

Formula: 
(K,Na)□2Li3(Sn,Zr,Ti)2[Si12O30]
Strunz: 
9.CM.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

Lithiomarsturite

Formula: 
LiCa2Mn2Si5O14(OH)
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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