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Nevadaite Fluellite & Hewettite

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Nevadaite Fluellite & Hewettite

Martin Jensen collection
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Description
Locality: 
Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek, Eureka County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a beautiful thumbnail with fantastic sprays of stout nevadaite crystals with purple fluellite crystals and minor sprays of hewettite. This material produced individual crystals large enough for PXRD which led to the completion of the desription of the species. Exceptional and beautiful example of the species!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nevadaite

Formula: 
(Cu2+,Al,V3+)6Al8(PO4)8F8(OH)2·22H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.60
Hardness: 
3.0 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Gold Quarry Mine (Maggie claims; Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology Sample Site No. 1560; Deep West Ore Body), Maggie Creek Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA

Fluellite

Formula: 
Al2(PO4)F2(OH)·7H2O
Strunz: 
8.DE.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Stenna Gwyn Mine (Stennagwyn Mine), Foxhole, St Stephen-in-Brannel, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK

Hewettite

Formula: 
CaV6O16·9H2O
Strunz: 
4.HE.15
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Ragra Mine (Minasragra), Huayllay District, Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru

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