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Auerlite

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Auerlite

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Description
Locality: 
Henderson County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.3 × 0.3 × 0.3 cm
Description

8 orange and light brown crystals of phosphor-rich thorite from the Henderson County, the FRL ”first recorded locality” of phosphothorite or “auerlite”, an old name for the variety.

With two original labels, the oldest one is from Julius Böhm (Vienna, Austria) that can be dated to the period 1925-1938 according to Wilson, W.E (2018) “Mineralogical Record Biographical Archive”.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Auerlite

Variety Of: 

Thorite

Formula: 
(Th,U)SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Hardness: 
4.5
Formula: 
near Th(Si,P)O4
Hardness: 
0.0

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