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- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Imiter mine, Tinghir Prov., Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco
- Formula
- Ag2HgS2
- Size
- SmCabinet 5.5x3.5x2.5cm
- Tagged
- sulfide , silver
- Special Info
- Type Locality
Slender silvery needles with rounded edges to 2mm with aboundant Proustite all over the specimen with at least one small, one good orange Xanthoconite crystal. Ex. William Pinch collection.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Nickenicher Weinberg, Nickenich, Mayen-Koblenz dist., Eifel, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
- Formula
- Mg2Al4Si5O18
- Size
- Thumbnail 2.5x2.5x2cm
Gorgeous tiny light blue hexagonal prismatic crystals to maybe 0.75mm at the most. There are a lot crystals in the tiny vesicles. Indialite is a high temperature mineral typicaly formed in volcanic and paralava environments such as burned shales above burning coal seams.
- 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.