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Whiteite Tiptopite & Roscherite

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Whiteite Tiptopite & Roscherite

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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 × 1.8 × 1.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a few sharp crystals of whiteite-CaMnMg with nice red roscherite groups and several sprays of tiptopite. Lots going on here!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Whiteite

Synonym Of: 

Whiteite-(CaFeMg)

Formula: 
{Ca}{(Fe2+,Mn2+)}{Mg2}{Al2}(PO4)4(OH)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.15
Hardness: 
4.0

Whiteite-(CaMnMg)

Formula: 
{Ca}{Mn2+}{Mg2}{Al2}(PO4)4(OH)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.15
Hardness: 
3.5

Whiteite-(MnFeMg)

Formula: 
{(Mn2+,Ca)}{(Fe2+,Mn2+)}{Mg2}{Al2}(PO4)4(OH)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.15
Hardness: 
4.0

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

Roscherite

Formula: 
Ca2Mn2+5Be4(PO4)6(OH)4·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic Tabular crystals or platy aggregates
Hardness: 
4.5 - 0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Greifenstein Rocks, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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