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Creedite

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Description
Locality: 
Navidad Mine, Indé Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 6.5 × 4.5 cm
Description

Colourless Mexician creedite is less common than the orange normally offered for sale. This is a good, sizable specimen with sharp transparent crystals on both sides and nice highlights of unknown peach and black coloured minerals. 

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What's on the rock

Creedite

Formula: 
Ca3SO4Al2F8(OH)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
3.CG.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Colorado Fluorspar Co. Mine, Wagon Wheel Gap, Mineral Co., Colorado, USA
Peter Crozier Minerals