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Tiptopite & Montgomeryite

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Tiptopite & Montgomeryite

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Description
Locality: 
Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.9 × 1.7 cm
Description

A very good specimen with numerous sprays of tiptopite with pinkish montgomeryite, orange roscherite and pink crystals of whiteite-MnFeMg. Top specimen!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tiptopite

Formula: 
K2(Na,Ca)2Li3Be6(PO4)6(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.25
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Tip Top Mine (Tip Top pegmatite), Fourmile, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA

Montgomeryite

Formula: 
Ca4MgAl4(PO4)6(OH)4·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.25
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA

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