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Jungite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 1.3 × 0.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.03cm
Description

A small matrix specimen with a few very tiny clusters of blue-green jungite (preliminary EDS only showed Zn, Fe, P, O, and Mn) growing in a small vug after some massive sphalerite to .3mm. This material is still under study and could possibly be a new species! (possibly the Mn analogue of jungite). All the crystals known came from one fist sized piece of pegmatite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jungite

Formula: 
Ca2Zn4Fe3+8(PO4)9(OH)9·16H2O
Strunz: 
8.DJ.25
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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