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Inesite With Hisingerite

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Inesite With Hisingerite

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Description
Locality: 
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 3.8 × 2.8 cm
Description

Radiating sprays of golden brown inesite occur with black hisingerite and mior white calcite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Inesite

Formula: 
Ca2(Mn,Fe)7Si10O28(OH)2·5H2O
Strunz: 
9.DL.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Hilfe Gottes Mine, Oberscheld, Dillenburg, Dillenburg District, Hesse, Germany

Hisingerite

Formula: 
Fe3+2(Si2O5)(OH)4·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.ED.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Riddarhyttan, Skinnskatteberg, Västmanland, Sweden
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