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Tinsleyite

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Description
Locality: 
Cerro Mejillones, Mejillones Peninsula, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.4 × 3.2 cm
Description

Very good intense pink tinsleyite (SEM-EDS & XRD confirmed) from Chile. Good crystals of this species are rarely seen.

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