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Tiptopite

Type Locality
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

Tiptopite is a very rare LiBe-Phosphate first discribed from Tip Top Mine in South Dakota.

This beautiful specimen shows lustrous bundles and sprays of Tiptopite crystals on a bed of brown roscherite crystals.

Very rare and nowadays extremely seldom offered.

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