Pale aggregate of small yellow flakes of cookeite with muscovite, quartz and alkali feldspar. Strickland Quarry, Portland, Connecticut. Scale is in centimeters. (Photo by W. Cordua.)
Formula: LiAl4(AlSi3010)(OH)8 Monoclinic
Description: Cookeite is a rare alteration product of other lithium minerals found in complex granitic pegmatites.
MARATHON COUNTY: White micaceous material found in a pocket in a pegmatites in the Wausau pluton, has been tentatively identified as cookeite by Falster (1987).
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