Tinaksite

  
 
  
Spray of red-brown tinaksite crystals in charoite matrix; frankamenite occurs as grey grain with aegirine
Origin: Murun, Siberia, Russia (type locality)
Sample size: 5 x 7 cm (top left), 4 x 4.5 cm (top right), 4 x 5 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
Orange tinaksite with purplish massive charoite
Origin: Murun, Aldan, Yakutsk, Russia
Sample size: 5 x 1.2 x 3.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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