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Albite Trilithionite & Cookeite

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RMM36706

Albite Trilithionite & Cookeite

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Description
Locality: 
Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.7 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
5.00cm
Description

This is a cluster of white albite crystals with pinkish trilithionite crystals to 1.0 cm, yellowish balls of cookeite crystals and minor micro quartz crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

Trilithionite

Formula: 
K(Li1.5Al1.5)(AlSi3O10)(F,OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
0.0

Cookeite

Formula: 
(Al2Li)Al2(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mount Mica Quarry (Mount Mica Mine), Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

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