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Axinite-(Mn)

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Axinite-(Mn)

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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: 
1.7 × 1.6 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a rather large vug containing very nice colorless blades of axinite-Mn from Sterling Hill. This mineral is rather common from the Franklin orebody but much rarer from the Sterling Mine. The crystals are coated by an unknown yellow druse in some places.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Axinite-(Mn)

Formula: 
Ca2Mn2+Al2BSi4O15(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BD.20
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

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