Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Holdenite

Views:
Watches:
JYJ728502

Holdenite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.6 × 1.4 cm
Description

Several pink Raman confirmed holdenite crystals on matrix, associated and not in photograph is platy brown kraisslite. The material also hosts minor chlorophoenicite. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Holdenite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Mg)6Zn3(AsO4)2(SiO4)(OH)8
Strunz: 
8.BE.55
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA