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Inesite

ex Americo Urbinati collection

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Description
Locality: 
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.5 × 7.1 × 3.1 cm
Description

Exceptionally large specimen featuring several groups of salmon pink needles of inesite

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