Heterosite
Rose Quartz crystal locality, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
11.7 x 5.4 x 5.4 cm. Heterosite is a rare manganese phosphate - rare from anywhere, that is, and PARTICULARLY in an American specimen! This one, fortunately, came with a partial page from an old notebook showing it to have been collected at the Newry (Maine) locality back in 1936. What is more, this is not just a thin druse of super-micro ...
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