Mineral Specimen and Product Inventory Search
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $15.00
- Locality
- Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Oxford Co., Maine, United States
- Formula
- Be3Al2Si6O18
- Size
- 5.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- beryllium, pegmatite mineral
Just a representative specimen for the locality. Striated and green, not terminated.
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $125.00
- Locality
- Hogtuva, Rana, Nordland, Norway
- Formula
- Ca4(Fe2+6Fe3+6)O4[Si8Be2Al2O36]
- Size
- 2.8 x 2.3 x 1.1 cm - Thumbnail
- Tagged
- beryllium
- Special Info
- Type & Only Locality
Elongated, thin, bladed black crystals throughout the specimen. The largest crystals reach 9mm. It is extremely rare and found only at this deposit named for the nearest prominent landmark, Høgtuva peak. It is a berllium mineral of the Aenigmatite group.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South Dakota, United States
- Formula
- Li8(Ca,Li,K)10.5Be24(PO4)24·38H2O
- Size
- 4.5 x 2.5 x 4.5 cm - Miniature
- Tagged
- phosphate, beryllium, pegmatite mineral
- Special Info
- XRD Confirmed
- Special Info
- EDS Confirmed
- Special Info
- Type & Only Locality
- Special Info
- Author's Material
Pahasapaite is one of the rarest minerals on Earth. It is only found at the Tip Top mine, and thus the type and only locality where it is found. The close-up photos show exactly where the glassy, pink crystals of Pahaspaite occur. This specimen shows more Pahasapaite than most others that I have seen, an area of 6x4mm. There are probably less than twenty or so in collections. It is nearly impossible to find one on the market these days. As is usual, it is associated with Tiptopite, Roscherite, and Englishite on Beryl matrix.
The specimen is one of the study pieces used for describibng the new mineral by Thomas Campbell and Willard Roberts at the School of Mines in Rapid City. It carries a Museum of Geology tag and also has a tag stating "New pink mineral".
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $95.00
- Locality
- Sapucaia mine, Galileia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Formula
- Ca2□2Fe3+4Be4(PO4)6(OH)6·4H2O
- Size
- 4 x 3 x 2 cm - Miniature
- Tagged
- phosphate, beryllium, pegmatite mineral
- Special Info
- Type Locality
Brownish red spherical crystal groups to about 0.75mm. There are also yellowish green fuzzy, spherical Meurigite crystals on top of the Ruifrancoite. The matrix is cleavelandite Albite. There are only two localities where Ruifrancoite is found. This is the type locality.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South Dakota, United States
- Formula
- K2(Li,Na,Ca)6(Be6P6)O24(OH)2·1.3H2O
- Size
- 7.5 x 5 x 5.5 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- phosphate, beryllium, pegmatite mineral
- Special Info
- Type & Only Locality
Colorless to white sprays of Tiptopite to 1.5mm with red Roscherite. This is a fine specimen with excellent, complete and full radial groups of Tiptopite. Many of the sprays have nice orange, single Roscherite crystals gracing the Tiptopite. The white part on the right side shows a complete alteration of the underlying Beryl matrix which is only about 8mm thick. In fact anywhere you see the white matrix is altered Beryl. Elsewhere the underlying matrix is Quartz.
The Tip Top mine is still the only locality in the world where Tiptopite is found.
