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Kazakhstanite & Schubnelite

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Kazakhstanite & Schubnelite

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Description
Locality: 
Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek, Eureka County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.4 × 0.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen covered in black radial spheres of rare kazakhstanite with sparse orange-black needles of very rare schubnelite. A good specimen of both rare vanadium minerals. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kazakhstanite

Formula: 
Fe3+5V4+3V5+12O39(OH)9·9H2O
Strunz: 
8.CB.45
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Balasauskandyk V Deposit, Karatau Range, Southern Kazakhstan Province (Ongtüstik Qazaqstan Oblysy; Yuzhno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Schubnelite

Formula: 
Fe3+VO4·H2O
Strunz: 
8.CB.35
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Mounana Mine (Mouana Mine), Franceville, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon

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