Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Andersonite

Views:
Watches:
JYJ658782

Andersonite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Markey Mine, Red Canyon, San Juan County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 2.7 × 0.7 cm
Description

Greenish-blue andersonite on uraninite impregnated sandstone from the Markey mine. Sometime leoszilardite occurs among this assemblage. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Andersonite

Formula: 
Na2Ca(UO2)(CO3)3·6H2O
Strunz: 
5.ED.30
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Hillside Mine (Happy Jack MS 920 claim; Camp MS 919 claim; Seven Stars MS 916 claim), Bozarth Mesa, Bagdad, Eureka District, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA