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Zeunerite Devilline & Luetheite

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Zeunerite Devilline & Luetheite

Martin Jensen collection
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Description
Locality: 
Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope, Pershing County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 2.3 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a rich thumbnail from with nice clusters of zeunerite tablets on matrix with pharmacosiderite cubes, patches of scaly blue devilline crystals (very rare here), minor arthurite, and perhaps most interestingly, crusts of beige REE and Fe bearing luetheite. All species confirmed by EDS analysis. Collected by Martin in 1989. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zeunerite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Walpurgis Flacher vein, Weißer Hirsch Mine (Shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Devilline

Formula: 
CaCu4(SO4)2(OH)6·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Cornwall, England, UK

Luetheite

Formula: 
Cu2Al2(AsO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.DD.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Patagonia District, Patagonia Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

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