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Description
Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 6 × 5 cm
Description

A historic inesite specimen with a good orange red colour and fresh crystals. Associated is barytocalcite. Comes with an old label depicted in the labels section from 1990.
 

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
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