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Barnesite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Gibellini Vanadium Project, Fish Creek Range, Gibellini, Eureka County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Fine specimen with lots of deep red acicular spheres of barnesite (first two pictures) in association with redbrown fibrous metahewettite (next two pictures).

Barnesite is only known from a few localities worldwide. Rare.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Barnesite

Formula: 
(Na,Ca)V6O16·3H2O
Strunz: 
4.HG.45
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Cactus Rat Mine, Cisco, Yellow Cat District (W. part of Thompsons District), Grand Co., Utah, USA

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