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Strontiojoaquinite from
Mina Numero Uno, Clear Creek, Hernandez, Clear Creek area, Picacho Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA

Description
Type Locality:	Mina Numero Uno, Clear Creek, Hernandez, Clear Creek area, Picacho Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA is the type locality for Strontiojoaquinite
Comments:	Occurs in the New Idria serpentinite body in albite-lined fractures cutting blueschist.
Habit:	Steep pseudotetragonal, bipyramidal.
Colour:	Green, yellow-green, yellow-brown (uncommon)
Quality of samples:	not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
References
References:	Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 470; www.mineralsocal.org; William S. Wise (1982) Strontiojoaquinite and bario-orthojoaquinite: two new members of the joaquinite group . American Mineralogist 67:809-816.
Associated minerals:
Associates:	Albite
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Strontiojoaquinite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Mina Numero Uno, Clear Creek, Hernandez, Clear Creek area, Picacho Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA
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