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Lasalite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Yellow Cat Mesa, Grand County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 1 × 0.5 cm
Description

Lasalite (a Na Mg vanadium oxide) is a relatively new mineral (IMA 2007-005) found only in 3 very close localities in Utah.

It occurs in this specimen as very nice deep orange crystals.

Outstanding under the microscope ! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lasalite

Formula: 
Na2Mg2(V10O28)·20H2O
Strunz: 
4.HC.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Vanadium Queen Mine, La Sal Creek Canyon, La Sal District (Paradox Valley District), San Juan Co., Utah, USA

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