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While a modest number of whitlockite specimens have been found by collectors at the Palermo mine, it is a very rare phosphate in other New England pegmatites.
Highslide JS
WHITLOCKITE ?  Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
1.3 mm field of view
 Species:           WHITLOCKITE ?
Locality:         Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.3 mm FOV. Bipyramid, lower left with blocky whitlockite-like crystal upper right.
Field Collected: From a tub of Palermo rocks gifted by Bob Whitmore
Catalog No.: u2562
Notes: From a baseball-sized chunk from a Whitmore tub. The piece had a multi-cm area of a glassy milky mineral with some crystal filled vugs of what appeared to be whitlockite. One vug had the crystals in this photo. The bipyramid (with yellow coating) is of interest. Normally, I would guess this would be wardite.... but I see no lateral striations common with wardite. Possibly the bipyramid is whitlockite, of unusual crystal habit.
Highslide JS
WHITLOCKITE ?  Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
2.7 mm field of view
 Species:           WHITLOCKITE ?
Locality:         Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 2.7 mm field of view
Field Collected: From a tub of Palermo rocks gifted by Bob Whitmore
Catalog No.: u2562
Notes: Another area on specimen u2562
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