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Blatonite

David Burgess Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Jomac Mine, White Canyon, San Juan County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.2 × 5.4 × 3.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large and world class sample of blatonite from the type locality with several large patches of fibrous prisms of blatonite on matrix with minor marecotite, boltwoodite and possibly hydrombobomkulite as white balls with ubiquitous gypsum. Extremely aesthetic and photogenic sample of this rare uranyl carbonate! David Burgess collection from Pequa Rare minerals and Patrick Haynes. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Blatonite

Formula: 
(UO2)CO3·H2O
Strunz: 
5.EB.10
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jomac Mine, White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA

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