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Loseyite

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Description
Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small grain of a sample with a cluster of white, partial prismatic loseyite crystals on black pyrochroite crystals from the type and only locality for the species. This is part of the original find and holotype material from 1929. Ex. Harvard and R. A. Fitton collections. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Loseyite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Zn,Mg)4Zn3(CO3)2(OH)10
Strunz: 
5.BA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic Radiating bundles of crystals
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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