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- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Hale Creek mine, Trinity Co., California, United States
- Formula
- Ca2Mn2+7Si10O28(OH)2·5H2O
- Size
- Miniature 5x3.5x3cm
Hale Creek is definitly one of the best Inesite deposits in the World. Two other Inesite deposits are Wessles (S. Africa) and Fengjiashan (China). These crystals measure up to be around 1cm. It is a fine specimen with good sharp crystals with a nice pink color.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- NBHC mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
- Formula
- Ca2Mn2+7Si10O28(OH)2·5H2O
- Size
- SmCabinet 6x4.5x4.5cm
Pink divergent groups of prismatic crystals of Inestite. The groups are 1.5 to 2cm. Excellent specimen with great crystals and is very rich. Hard to find good specimens of Inesite these days, especially from Broken Hill.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Hale Creek mine, Trinity Co., California, United States
- Formula
- Ca2Mn2+7Si10O28(OH)2·5H2O
- Size
- SmCabinet 7x4.5x4cm
Pink elongated tabular crystals to 2mm lining the many vuggy areas of this specimen. The color is a little less intense.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Hale Creek mine, Trinity Co., California, United States
- Formula
- Ca2Mn2+7Si10O28(OH)2·5H2O
- Size
- Miniature 3.5x3x1cm
Rosey pink tabular Inesite crystals to 3mm. Good speicmen. It's not quite that rich pink as in the photos.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Hale Creek mine, Trinity Co., California, United States
- Formula
- Ca2Mn2+7Si10O28(OH)2·5H2O
- Size
- SmCabinet 9x6x4.5cm
Cabinet size specimen with two large cavities filled with good pink, thick bladed Inesite crystals to 4mm. A very good specimen.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Hale Creek mine, Trinity Co., California, United States
- Formula
- Ca2Mn2+7Si10O28(OH)2·5H2O
- Size
- SmCabinet 9x5.5x5cm
An excellent specimen with a very nice group of narrow bladed 3mm crystals and much more within a large vug.
