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Whitlockite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Bell Pit, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.3 × 1.4 cm
Description

Rare Ca-Mg phosphate mineral, forms colorless crystal fragment on feldspar matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Whitlockite

Formula: 
Ca9Mg(PO4)6(HPO4)
Group Parent: 
Whitlockite Group
Strunz: 
8.AC.45
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 -
Colour: 
Colourless, grey-white, light pink, light yellow; colourless in transmitted light
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Loranth Minerals

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