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Lithiophosphate

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Lithiophosphate

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 3.7 × 2.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a miniature sample with a grouping of very rare lithiophosphate crystals on quartz matrix. This is the first time this rare material from the Foote Mine has ever been on the market! Collected by Jack Eaker in the mid-1960s and then quickly mined out by Foote Mineral Company due to the richness of the lithium mineralization in this zone, these specimens are extremely rare from the mine. All the samples were kept in Jack's collection until I recently acquired it. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lithiophosphate

Formula: 
Li3PO4
Strunz: 
8.AA.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Okhmyl'k Mt, Voron'i Tundry, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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