Mineralpedia Details for Sarkinite
Sarkinite
Named for its fleshy color and greasy, skin-like luster after the Greek word sarkinos, meaning “made of flesh.” Sarkinite occurs in its Swedish localities in metamorphosed orebodies of iron and manganese, in Austria in manganese lenses in marine-origin schists, and at Franklin, New Jersey in the United States in metamorphosed, stratiform zinc ores. Additional localities include Switzerland and others.
Ref. Handbook of Mineralogy, Anthony et al (1995) and MSA at http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/sarkinite.pdf
- Formula
- Mn2+2(AsO4)(OH)
- Crystal System
- Monoclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Tabular
- Cleavage
- Distinct, None, None
- Luster
- Greasy (Oily)
- Color
- yellow, dark red, reddish yellow
- Streak
- yellow
- Class
- Monoclinic - Prismatic
- Fracture
- Conchoidal - Uneven
- Hardness
- 4-5
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Sarkinite from Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States
Excellent, well-formed, light red Sarkinite crystals to 1mm.
Abundant reddish Sarkinite crystals in 1-2mm clusters showing excellent definition in a 1x3cm area.
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