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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Galaxite is a spinel mineral with the chemical formula (Mn,Fe,Mg)(Al,Fe)2O4. It has a vitreous luster and is brownish red. It also leaves a brownish red streak. It is rated 7.5 on the Mohs Scale. It was first described in 1932 for an occurrence at Bald Knob, Alleghany County, North Carolina near its namesakes, the town of Galax, Virginia and the plant galax which grows in the area. It occurs in carbonate-rich metamorphosed manganese ore deposits. It occurs associated with alleghanyite, rhodonite, sonolite, spessartine, tephroite, kutnohorite, manganhumite, jacobsite, kellyite and alabandite in the Bald Knob area. Associated minerals of katoptrite, magnetite, manganostibite, magnussonite, tephroite, manganhumite and manganosite in the Brattfors mine area of Nordmark, Varmland, Sweden.

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