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Tinsleyite

Steve and Janet Cares collection
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Description
Locality: 
Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.5 × 1 cm
Description

A small matrix specimen with absolutely fantastic crystals of tinsleyite on tavorite matrix from the Tip Top mine. Collected by Steve and Janet Cares on one of their many trips to Tip Top.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tinsleyite

Formula: 
KAl2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Tip Top Mine (Tip Top pegmatite), Fourmile, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA

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