This specimen has deep reddish orange coloured inesite crystals in spherical
clusters set among light to moderately violet coloured
datolite.
There are also some beige coloured masses of
gageite.
The largest inesite ball is 2.6 cm across.
Origin: Wessels Mine, Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa
Ex Collection of K. Ludi von Bezing
Ex Collection of K. Ludi von Bezing
Sample size: 11.5 x 10 x 7.8 cm
This specimen of
quartz
hosts a 1.8 cm fan shaped crystal group of inesite. The crystals are dusted
with small
apophyllite crystals.
This specimen is all bladed inesite crystals with numerous lustrous, dark
brown crystals of
hubeite.
Hubeite is closely related to
ruizite.
There is also what appears to be
gageite
(beige material) filling some of the voids between the inesite crystals.
This specimen of
quartz
has a 2.6 cm bow tie of inesite and scattered crystals of brown
hubeite. There
are also other isolated crystals of inesite. Much of the matrix is included
calcite.
Origin: Daye Mine, Hubei Province, China
Sample size: 2.5 x 2.1 x 1.6 cm (top/2nd row), 6 x 4.5 x 2.1 cm (3rd/4th
row), 11 x 9 x 3.5 cm (5th/bottom row)
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