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Goldquarryite

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Locality: 
Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek, Eureka County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0 × 0 × 0 cm
Description

You are bidding a capsule with one larger colorless crystal fragment (about .5mm), and two even smaller blue crystal fragments of extremely rare goldquarryite from the type and only locality for this copper, cadium phosphate. Only tiny amounts of this mineral reached the collector market and this is one of the few known samples! The fragments are tiny, but rare that a chance to obtain this species arises! Holotype material collected by Martin Jensen. 

Mineral Data
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Goldquarryite

Formula: 
CuCd2Al3(PO4)4F2(H2O,F)2·10H2O
Strunz: 
8.DB.65
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Streak: 
white
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

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