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Esquireite Witherite & Fresnoite

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Esquireite Witherite & Fresnoite

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Description
Locality: 
Esquire #1 Claim, Rush Creek, Fresno County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 0.9 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some nice bladed plates of rare esquireite with pale yellow spheres of fresnoite and radial, chalky witherite. Very rare!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Esquireite

Formula: 
BaSi6O13·7H2O
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2
Colour: 
Colorless
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Esquire No. 1 claim, Rush Creek, Rush Creek deposit, Big Creek-Rush Creek District, Fresno Co., California, USA

Witherite

Formula: 
BaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK

Fresnoite

Formula: 
Ba2Ti(Si2O7)O
Strunz: 
9.BE.15
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Esquire No. 7 claim, Big Creek, Rush Creek deposit, Big Creek-Rush Creek District, Fresno Co., California, USA

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