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Metarossite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Arrowhead Tunnel, Bull Pen Canyon, San Miguel County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.4 × 1.9 × 2.4 cm
Description

Metarossite - Ca(V2O6)•2(H2O) is a rare secondary mineral resulting from the dehydration of rossite.

Here it forms platy canary yellow crystals on a sandstone matrix from one of a few noted localities.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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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