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Inesite

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Description
Locality: 
NChwaning III Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 4.8 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
71.00gr
Description

Inesite crystals on matrix.  These crystals are blade like and very nice. This pocket only came out last year, and they gave us the best crystals of Inesite that has ever come out of NChwaning Mine...There was only one pocker and we got most of the specimens...

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