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Eakerite

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Eakerite

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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: 
4.3 × 3.5 × 2.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with very rich prisms of eakerite up to 5mm on matrix with albite. A fantastic example of the species collected in the early 1970s. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eakerite

Formula: 
Ca2SnAl2Si6O18(OH)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.CG.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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