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Boltwoodite & Uranophane

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Boltwoodite & Uranophane

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Description
Locality: 
New Method Mine, Amboy, San Bernardino County, California, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 5.1 × 2.9 cm
Description

Boltwoodite and uranophane with some violet fluorite on matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Boltwoodite

Formula: 
(K,Na)(UO2)[HSiO4]·0.5H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Pick's Delta Mine (Delta Mine; Pick's Mine), Delta, San Rafael District (San Rafael Swell), Emery Co., Utah, USA...

Uranophane

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)2[HSiO4]2·5H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Miedzianka (Kupferberg), Jelenia Góra District, Rudawy Janowickie Mts, Lower Silesia (Dolnośląskie), Poland