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Markcooperite Ottoite & Bairdite

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Markcooperite Ottoite & Bairdite

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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: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm
Description

Orange to brown markcooperite spheres with colourless ottoite blue mojaveite, lime-green bairdite, olive green timroseite and pink burckhardtite and khinite. 

Rare mineral assemblage.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Markcooperite

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

Ottoite

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

Bairdite

Formula: 
Pb2Cu2+4Te6+2O10(OH)2(SO4)•H2O
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California, USA