- RARE15-040
- Ixiolite Crystal With Cleavelandite
- Helen Beryl Mine, Fourmile, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
- Thumbnail, 2.2 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm
- Ex. Thomas Campbell
- SOLD
Exceptional example of this rare, complex tantalum oxide. Black-brown, blocky, pseudo-orthorhombic, prismatic crystal of ixiolite associated with pinkish (iron-stained) albite, var. cleavelandite. The crystal is terminated and displays two complete and one partially exposed prism faces with the other prism and lower termination intergrown with albite. Thomas and Melissa Campbell collection