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Nevadaite Tinticite Fluellite & Hewettite

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Nevadaite Tinticite 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: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 5.2 × 3.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with a bevy of rare minerals. Rich, radial clusters of nevadaite needles, small yellow clusters of tinticite crystals, sprays of red hewettite needles and sharp, colorless to pale yellow fluellite crystals all line fractures in brecciated quartzite. Rich sample collected by Martin Jensen. 

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

Tinticite

Formula: 
Fe3+5.34(PO4)3.62(VO4)0.38(OH)4·6.7H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.32
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Unnamed cave, Tintic Standard Mine (Tintic Standard Mines 1; 2 & 3), East Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Utah Co., Utah, 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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