Inesite
- Fengjiashan mine
- Daye
- Hubei Province
- China
- 2.7 by 2.3 by 1.4 cm – Thumbnail specimen (fits into a 3 cm cube)
Inesite is a manganese silicate mineral found in certain metamorphic environments. Due to its manganese content, inesite has a rich pink to red color. China began producing inesite specimens in 2000 or so, in wonderful mushroom shapes and fans like this example. This radiating fan of inesite has a later coating of quartz crystals on the backside and a minor scattered crystals of brown hubeite. Hubeite is a calcium manganese silicate originally described in 2002 from this locality.
Price: $250
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