Curetonite
Curetonite
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 11 x 6 x 4 cm - Cabinet
- Formula
- Ba(Al,Ti)(PO4)(OH,O)F (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Redhouse Barite mine, Potosi dist., Humboldt Co., Nevada, United States
Green crystal grains to 3mm scattered about matrix with Baryte. This is a large, rich, piece with a sawed flat underside.
Curetonite is named in honor Forrest Cureton II (1932-2020) and his son Michael E. Cureton (1960 -). I first met Forrest in Pollock Pines, California in 1997 at the NCMA, when I traded Sincosite for rare minerals from Nevada. Forrest and his wife, Barbara, had a robust mineral dealership, The Cureton Mineral Company, for many years and later sold out to Tony Nikischer of Excalibur minerals. You can hardly view a rare mineral collection and not see many of the minerals with his old labels. Forrest was still field collecting a year or two before his death at 82. I encourage you to read more about Forrest in the Mineralogical Record label archive.
Type & Only Locality, Signed Label
Curetonite
- Formula
- Ba(Al,Ti)(PO4)(OH,O)F
- Crystal System
- Monoclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Euhedral Crystals, Twinning Common
- Cleavage
- Good, Parting, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- bright yellowish green, nickel green
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Monoclinic - Prismatic
- Fracture
- Brittle
- Hardness
- 3.5
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
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