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Nevadaite

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Locality: 
Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek, Eureka County, Nevada, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.5 × 2.3 cm
Description

A very good example of nevadaite, a rare copper-aluminium-vanadium-phosphate, from the Type Locality.
The specimen has a good coverage of small blue spheres of nevadaite associated with green balls of variscite on matrix.

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
Cartils Minerals

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