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Huemulite & Hughesite

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Huemulite & Hughesite

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Description
Locality: 
West Sunday Mine, Slick Rock District, San Miguel County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with rich groups of tiny, bright orange hughesite crystals among brick-red groups of rare huemulite crystals and minor gypsum. A good sample of both rare vanadium minerals!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Huemulite

Formula: 
Na4Mg(V10O28)·24H2O
Strunz: 
4.HG.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Huemul Mine, Pampa Amarilla District, Malargüe Department, Mendoza, Argentina

Hughesite

Formula: 
Na3Al(V10O28)•22H2O
Hardness: 
1.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
yellow
Type Locality: 
West Sunday Mine, Slick Rock District, San Miguel Co., Colorado, USA

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