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Eucryptite

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Eucryptite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.5 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large thumbnail sample with rich, and quite large euhedral eucryptite crystals on a pegmatite fracture. The Foote Mine is the best locality on earth for this species. Ex Jack eaker collection. Fluoresces bright red in SWUV. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eucryptite

Formula: 
LiAlSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

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