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Ogdensburgite

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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Reddish brown crystal aggregates of the extremely rare arsenate ogdensburgite from the type locality in Ogdensburg and only one of the four known localities worldwide.

Find from 1982 in the Sohle 340 of the Sterling Hill mine.

Very rich specimen for the quantity of the mineral present

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ogdensburgite

Formula: 
Ca2Fe3+4(Zn,Mn2+)(AsO4)4(OH)6·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.57
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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