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Francevillite & Metarossite

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Francevillite & Metarossite

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Description
Locality: 
Pandora Mine, La Sal, San Juan County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2 × 1.9 cm
Description

nice and rich specimen with many very good olive green crystals of francevillite with associate yellow green crystals of metarossite on matrix

Mineral Data
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Francevillite

Formula: 
(Ba,Pb)(UO2)2(VO4)2·5H2O
Strunz: 
4.HB.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Mounana Mine (Mouana Mine), Franceville, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon

Metarossite

Formula: 
Ca(V2O6)·2H2O
Strunz: 
4.HD.10
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Arrowhead tunnel (Arrowhead prospect; O'Neill's claim), Bull Pen Canyon, San Miguel Co., Colorado, USA...

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