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Svanbergite

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Svanbergite

William Henderson collection

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Description
Locality: 
Dover Mine, Fitting, Mineral County, Nevada, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.2 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small matrix specimen with two very nice pink crystals of svanbergite on pyrophyllite(?) from this rare locality for the species. These are crystals in a cavity and not in matrix as is usual for the species.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Svanbergite

Formula: 
SrAl3(PO4)(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
8.BL.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Hålsjöberg (Horrsjöberg), Torsby, Värmland, Sweden

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