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Cookeite

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Description
Locality: 
Stand On Your Head Mine, Bland, Saline County, Arkansas, United States of America
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.4 × 0.4 × 0.4 cm
Description

A small collection of crystalline balls of cookeite from one of the great localities for the species.   The balls range in color in various shades of blue-green, and some are speared by tiny quartz needles.   

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cookeite

Formula: 
(Al2Li)Al2(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mount Mica Quarry (Mount Mica Mine), Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

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