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Lasalite

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Description
Locality: 
Firefly–Pigmay Mine, La Sal, San Juan County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 2.9 × 1.7 cm
Description

An excellent miniature size specimen of lasalite from the Firefly-Pigmay Mine.   This specimen features beautiful orange crystals of lasalite rich on matrix.   Lasalite is a vanadate of sodium and magnesium; a rare member of the pascoite group known from just five localities along the Utah-Colorado border.

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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