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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: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 3.5 × 3.3 cm
Description

Intense pink tinsleyite crystals (EDS conf.) from Morro Mejillones. Beautiful and uncommon in good crystals!

 

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