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Inesite

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Description
Locality: 
Hale Creek Mine, Trinity County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 4.5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Description

Pink, lustrous, prismatic inesite crystals up to 7 mm tall in a cavity of the matrix from the Hale Creek Mine, California, USA. A very typical specimen from this famous Californian locality. 

Mineral Data
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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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