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Calciodelrioite & Rossite

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Calciodelrioite & Rossite

SEM-EDS confirmed material

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Description
Locality: 
Little Eva Mine, Yellow Cat Mesa, Grand County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm
Description

Colourless calciodelrioite on colourless rossite (XRD confirmed) from the Little Eva mine. The main phase has been reanalysed to exclude other endmembers in the group. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calciodelrioite

Formula: 
Ca(VO3)2·4H2O
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
West Sunday Mine, Slick Rock District, San Miguel Co., Colorado, USA

Rossite

Formula: 
Ca(V2O6)·4H2O
Strunz: 
4.HD.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Arrowhead tunnel (Arrowhead prospect; O'Neill's claim), Bull Pen Canyon, San Miguel Co., Colorado, USA...