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Navajoite

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Description
Locality: 
Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 3.2 × 2.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a very rich miniature with a vanadium nodule from the Union Carbide Mine (North Wilson Pit) that has a large vug lined with very rich, dark red needles of navajoite (or a mineral very close to navajoite, under investigation). These vanadium nodules are very unusual and contain a strange assemblage of species. Collected in the 1980s and split open just this week! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Navajoite

Formula: 
Fe3+V5+9O24·12H2O
Strunz: 
4.HG.30
Hardness: 
1.5
Type Locality: 
Monument No. 2 Mine, Monument No. 2 channel, Monument Valley, Navajo Indian Reservation, Apache Co., Arizona, USA

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