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Lithiophilite

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Lithiophilite

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Description
Locality: 
Harding Mine, Picuris, Taos County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.5 × 2.7 cm
Description

Good lithiophillite specimen from the New Mexico, it forms salmon-orange colored masses partially covered with unidentified manganese-oxides.

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Lithiophilite

Formula: 
LiMn2+PO4
Strunz: 
8.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA
Loranth Minerals

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