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Tyuyamunite & Schröckingerite

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Tyuyamunite & Schröckingerite

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Description
Locality: 
F33 Mine, Grants, Cibola County, New Mexico, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 4.1 × 3.6 cm
Description

Bright neon yellow plates of tyuyamunite richly cover this specimen, no as obvious because of it colourful neighbour are pale yellow green masses of schrongerite scattered amongst the tyuyamunite

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

Schröckingerite

Formula: 
NaCa3(UO2)(CO3)3(SO4)F·10H2O
Strunz: 
5.EG.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Svornost Mine (Einigkeit Mine), Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Earthstones Australia

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