Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Inesite

Views:
Watches:
RAF669817

Inesite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
NChwaning I Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.70cm
Weight: 
18.00gr
Description

Another very fine inesite specimen with very nice blades.  These specimens with nice blades only came out last year from N'Chwaning 111, Northern Cape, South Africa.

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