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Zellerite

Dan Behnke collection
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Description
Locality: 
Lucky MC Mine, Gas Hills, Fremont County, Wyoming, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 0.6 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some tiny prisms of zellerite on matrix from the type locality for the species. Extremely rare material! Comes with one original slide scanned and shown here. 

This sample is from the collection of Dan Behnke, long-time friend, micromounter and prodigious photographer. I am pleased to be able to offer selections from his large collection, many of which are illustrated specimens in Rocks & Minerals, The Mineralogiocal Record, Photo Atlas of Minerals and many other publications. All samples from his meticulously catalogued collection will come with his original index card with all notes, photography annotations and other pertinent information, as well as any slides Dan may have taken of the sample with publication notes and date the photo was made.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zellerite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)(CO3)2·5H2O
Strunz: 
5.EC.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Lucky MC mine (Lucky Mac), Gas Hills District, Fremont Co., Wyoming, USA

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