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Tiptopite Englishite Montgomeryite & Roscherite

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Tiptopite Englishite Montgomeryite & Roscherite

Dan Behnke collection
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Description
Locality: 
Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.1 × 0.5 cm
Description

ILLUSTARTED! You are bidding on a small but exceptional sample with rich sprays of tiptopite on matrix, many showing a thick prism with hollow ends, along with rich balls of englishite, sprays of montgomeryite/kingsmountite and small orange roscherite crystals. Very rich specimen obtained from Simkev Micros at the Detroit Show, 1984. Comes with Dan's original 6 slides (scanned here) and index card. Illustrated in Photo Atlas of Minerals (2007). 

This sample is from the collection of Dan Behnke, long-time friend, micromounter and prodigious photographer. I am pleased to be able to offer selections from his large collection, many of which are illustrated specimens in Rocks & Minerals, The Mineralogiocal Record, Photo Atlas of Minerals and many other publications. All samples from his meticulously catalogued collection will come with his original index card with all notes, photography annotations and other pertinent information, as well as any slides Dan may have taken of the sample with publication notes and date the photo was made.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tiptopite

Formula: 
K2(Na,Ca)2Li3Be6(PO4)6(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.25
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Tip Top Mine (Tip Top pegmatite), Fourmile, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA

Englishite

Formula: 
K3Na2Ca10Al15(PO4)21(OH)7·26H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA

Montgomeryite

Formula: 
Ca4MgAl4(PO4)6(OH)4·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.25
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA

Roscherite

Formula: 
Ca2Mn2+5Be4(PO4)6(OH)4·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic Tabular crystals or platy aggregates
Hardness: 
4.5 - 0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Greifenstein Rocks, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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