Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Tyuyamunite & Volborthite

Views:
Watches:
HCH547288

Tyuyamunite & Volborthite

Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Tyuya-Muyun, Osh Oblast, Kyrgyzstan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.05cm
Description

Yellow aggregates of platy Tyuyamunite with more greenish aggregates of Volborthite on matrix.

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

Volborthite

Formula: 
Cu3(V2O7)(OH)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.FD.05
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Sofronovskii Cu Mine, Yugovskii Zavod, Perm', Permskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps