Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Whitlockite

Views:
Watches:
SYM614844

Whitlockite

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Palermo 1 Mine, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.5 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm
Description

Whitlockite with sprays of strunzite on siderite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Whitlockite

Formula: 
Ca9Mg(PO4)6(HPO4)
Group Parent: 
Whitlockite Group
Strunz: 
8.AC.45
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 -
Colour: 
Colourless, grey-white, light pink, light yellow; colourless in transmitted light
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA