Tavorite

 
 
Origin: Tip Top mine, Custer, Custer Co., South Dakota, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
 
  
 
    
Light green tavorite with rockbridgeite, leucophosphite and huréaulite
  
Lime green tavorite micro crystals with pink, gemmy huréaulite crystals to 1 mm, purple, gemmy leucophosphite to 1 mm and rockbridgeite with the matrix of triphylite. Ex. Grenier Collection
Origin: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South Dakota, U.S.A.
Sample size: 1.5 x 1 x 1 cm (top), 3 x 2 x 2 cm (2nd row), 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm (3rd row), 6.5 x 5 x 2 cm (bottom)
 
  
Sugary micro crystals of bright yellow-green tavorite filling voids and fractures with hureaulite to 1 mm in triphylite or rockbridgeite matrix
Origin: Bull Moose mine, Custer Co., South Dakota, United States
Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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