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Nasonite & Barysilite

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Nasonite & Barysilite

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Description
Locality: 
Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a matrix consisting of rich, pink crystalline barysilite with a few small vugs on one end hosting very nice prisms of nasonite. Classic and rare material! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nasonite

Formula: 
Pb6Ca4(Si2O7)3Cl2
Strunz: 
9.BE.77
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Parker Mine (Parker shaft), Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

Barysilite

Formula: 
Pb8Mn2+[Si2O7]3
Strunz: 
9.BC.20
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Persberg district, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

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