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Parsettensite & Albite

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Parsettensite & Albite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.4 × 0.8 cm
Description

Matrix with burnt orange coloured micro parsettensite crystals on colourless albite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Parsettensite

Formula: 
K1.2Mn8(Si,Al)12O26(OH)10
Strunz: 
9.EG.40
Hardness: 
1.5
Type Locality: 
Parsettens Alp, Tinizong (Tinzen), Oberhalbstein (Surses; Sursass), Albula Valley, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden), Switzerland

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

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