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Cahnite & Rhodonite

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Cahnite & Rhodonite

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Description
Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.3 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a few nice, small, colorless and twinned cahnite crystals on blades of rhodonite. Classic and very rare! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cahnite

Formula: 
Ca2[B(OH)4](AsO4)
Strunz: 
6.AC.70
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

Rhodonite

Formula: 
MnSiO3
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Kaiser Franz Mine (König Wilhelm Mine), Schävenholz (Schebenholz; Schäbenholz), Elbingerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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