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Honessite

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Honessite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Wallace Stone Quarry, Bay Port, Huron County, Michigan, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 2 cm
Description

Small quartz lined geode with probably altered millerite (hosenssite) from Wallace mine, Bayport, Michigan.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Honessite

Formula: 
(Ni1-xFe3+x)(OH)2[SO4]x/2·nH2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.35
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
1.0 - 1.5
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Linden, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Iowa Co., Wisconsin, USA