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Cookeite

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Cookeite

ex coll. A. Buzio
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero in Campo, Campo nell'Elba, Elba, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 2.8 × 1.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Weight: 
19.00gr
Description

Rare spheroids of candid orange-pinkish cookeite populating a minute vug into the Elba aplite.

Very unusual specimen from Elba. From the collection of my late friend A. Buzio (Italy).

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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