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Phosphophyllite & Zn Mn Phosphate

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Phosphophyllite & Zn Mn Phosphate

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Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.3 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small matrix specimen with one vug containing some small but very well-formed phosphophyllite crystals. Another vug contains several tiny groups of green crystals that are a new Mn, Zn phosphate currently under study. Both minerals are extremely rare at the Foote Mine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Phosphophyllite

Formula: 
Zn2Fe(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CA.40
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic Prismatic crystals, often twinned
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf North Pegmatite (Meixner Feldspar Pit), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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