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Ottoite Markcooperite & Housleyite

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Ottoite Markcooperite & Housleyite

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Description
Locality: 
Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, Baker, Soda Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.9 × 3.4 × 2.7 cm
Description

Pale ottoite with orange markcooperite and deep blue housleyite on matrix. The sample also hosts greenish-yellow thorneite on matrix.  

Images 1-3: pale blue to green housleyite aggregates with pale green ottoite aggregate in the right corner.

Images 4-5: intense blue housleyite

Images 6-7: orange markcooperite and yellow-green thorneite

Image 8: thorneite

 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ottoite

Formula: 
Pb2TeO5
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Markcooperite

Formula: 
Pb2(UO2)(TeO6)
Hardness: 
3.0 - 0.0
Colour: 
Orange
Type Locality: 
Aga Mine, Otto Mountain, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Housleyite

Formula: 
Pb6CuTe6+4O18(OH)2
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California, USA