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Bermanite - Sold
- Tip Top mine
- Custer County
- South Dakota
- U.S.A.
- 5.2 × 5.2 × 3.8 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)
Bermanite is a hydrous manganese phosphate. Hurlbut (1936) named the mineral after Harry Berman (1902-1944), professor of mineralogy at Harvard University and co-author of Dana's System of Mineralogy (7th edition).
Bermanite forms red crusts on earlier jahnsite and leucophosphite. Rare from the locality. From the collection of E.R. Laskowski (1949-2020), a mining engineer who retired to Tucson, Arizona.
