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Montebrasite

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Description
Locality: 
Bell Pit, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.8 × 1.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with fantastic bladed montebrasite crystals on matrix with nice crystals of siderite. One crystal in penetrated by a siderite prism and is perfectly doubly terminated. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Montebrasite

Formula: 
LiAl(PO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Montebras Mines, Montebras, Soumans, Creuse, Limousin, France

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