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Tyuyamunite & Tangeite

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Tyuyamunite & Tangeite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Ridenaur Mine, Prospect Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 3.6 × 1.6 cm
Description

Electric yellow, lustrous crystals of tyuyamunite on a bed of olive green crystalline tangeite.   An excellent specimen from this venerable locality deep in a tributary canyon of the Grand Canyon.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tyuyamunite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)2(VO4)2·5-8H2O
Strunz: 
4.HB.25
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Tyuya-Muyun Cu-V-U deposit (Radium Mine), Alai Range (Alay Range), Osh Oblast, Kyrgyzstan

Tangeite

Formula: 
CaCu(VO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Glavnaya vein, Tyuya-Muyun Cu-V-U Deposit (Radium Mine), Alai Range (Alay Range), Osh Oblast, Kyrgyzstan

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