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Inesite

Ex Armin Wendland Collection
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 4 × 2.6 cm
Description

This nice specimen features distinctive meat-coloured sprays of inesite on matrix. They are lustrous and well developed for that what it is. Inesite is, regarded worldwide, not so rare but from Broken Hill, Australia it is rather seldom. A good and classic specimen from an abandoned locality.

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
Wendel Minerals

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