Mineralpedia Details for Lithiophilite
Lithiophilite
- Formula
- LiMn2+PO4
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Crystal Habit
- Prismatic
- Cleavage
- Perfect, Very Good, Imperfect
- Luster
- Vitreous - Resinous
- Color
- brown, yellowish brown, salmon, brownish, blackish
- Streak
- gray white
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
- Fracture
- Conchoidal - Uneven
- Hardness
- 4-5
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Lithiophilite from Foote mine, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, United States
A nice, slender 3mm crystal with fluorapatite from this famous lithium-rich pegmatite.
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Lithiophilite from Midnight Owl mine, Yavapai Co., Arizona, United States
An old David Shannon stock specimen with the label stating that it is a very pure Mn end member. That is, in the Triphylite-Lithiophilite series, where Triphylite is the lithium end member, while Lithiophilite is the Mn end member. Usually both minerals are somewhere in between that series. It is all the salmon pink area occuring much like the "salmonsite" which occured at the Stweart mine of the Pala district. It is a primary phosphate found chiefly if not exclusively in pegmatites.
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Lithiophilite from Emmons quarry, Oxford, Co., Maine, United States
Excellent crystal for this rare lithium phosphate. These are hard to come by, usually this mineral is massive.
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