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Foggite & Crandallite

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Foggite & Crandallite

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Description
Locality: 
Palermo 1 Mine, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a nice vug of quartz crystals of one of end of the specimen hosting many nice white frosty crystals of crandallite. Also is a white spray of foggite showing the rectangular terminations of the foggite on the ends. Another vug on the specimen hosts small balls of square plates of foggite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Foggite

Formula: 
CaAl(PO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DL.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine (Palermo No. 1 pegmatite; Hartford Mine; GE Mine), Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA

Crandallite

Formula: 
CaAl3(PO4)2(OH)5·H2O
Strunz: 
8.BL.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Brooklyn Mine, Silver City, Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Juab Co., Utah, USA

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