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Tiptopite & Englishite

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Tiptopite & Englishite

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Description
Locality: 
Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 0.9 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a narrow vug that is lined with beautiful, sharp crystals of tiptopite, red crystals of roscherite and a very nice and perfect sphere of englishite crystals. 

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

Englishite

Formula: 
K3Na2Ca10Al15(PO4)21(OH)7·26H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA

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