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Tinsleyite & Laueite

Dan Behnke collection
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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: 
1.3 × 0.8 × 0.9 cm
Description

ILLUSTARTED!! You are bidding on a small sample with very nice crystals of rare tinsleyite in a vug with small crytsals of laueite. Sample is illustrated in Mineralogical Record V17 #4 pg. 248 and in Photo Atlas of Minerals 2007. Comes with four original slides taken by Dan and the original collection index card. Collected by Tom Campbell. 

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

Laueite

Formula: 
Mn2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.30
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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