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Sterlinghillite

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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm
Description

White or very pale pink silky spherules composed of acicular crystals of the extremely rare Mn arsenate mineral sterlinghillite from the TL in Sterling Hill mine and only one of the three known localities worldwide. 

Probably analyzed by the former owner of the specimen (the Vandenbroucke Museum, but the analysis is no longer available)

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sterlinghillite

Formula: 
Mn3(AsO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.25
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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