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Tyuyamunite

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Tyuyamunite

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Thompsons District, Grand County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.6 × 0.6 cm
Description

Canary yellow to greenish microcrystals of tyuyamunite richly covering all around a black matrix. With two original labels, the number 5011 of the Contarini collection is stapled in an early label of Roberto Palumbo, a mineral dealer in Roma until 1945 (Wilson, W.E., 2018). “Mineralogical Biographical Archive”.

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

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