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Inesite

Former collection Christian Mavris
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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: 
4.8 × 3.9 × 3.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Weight: 
52.00gr
Description

Colorful miniature consisting of a drusy with numerous saturated pink crystals of inesite. Very rich for the specie and locality, in good conditions. 

Quite representative and sought-after, in my personal collection since my undergraduate times (early 2000s). 

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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