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Straczekite

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Straczekite

Don Owens collection
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Description
Locality: 
Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 5.2 × 3.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with a very large vug lined with thousands of straczekite crystals. There are also many other clusters of the mineral in other fractures and small vugs. Exceptionally rich example of the species collected by the mine geologist Don Owens in 1981. 

Mineral Data
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Straczekite

Formula: 
(Ca,K,Ba)(V5+,V4+)8O20·3H2O
Strunz: 
4.HE.20
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
North Wilson pit, Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs (Potash Sulfur Springs), Garland Co., Arkansas, USA

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