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Metaswitzerite & Eucryptite

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Metaswitzerite & Eucryptite

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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: 
4 × 3 × 2.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with some very nice clusters of metaswitzerite crystals in association with extremely rare, rounded, slightly altered crystals of eucryptite and tiny fluorapatite crystals on albite matrix. This is a very rare association and was only found once at the mine. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metaswitzerite

Formula: 
Mn3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

Eucryptite

Formula: 
LiAlSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

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