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Yeatmanite & Tilasite

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Yeatmanite & Tilasite

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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.3 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with rich, small burgundy plates of very rare yeatmanite in matrix with greyish tilasite and fibrous sussexite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Yeatmanite

Formula: 
Zn6Mn2+9Sb5+2(SiO4)4O12
Strunz: 
9.AE.45
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Buckwheat pit (Southwest opening; Buckwheat Mine), Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

Tilasite

Formula: 
CaMg(AsO4)F
Strunz: 
8.BH.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

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