Doloresite from
Monument No. 2 Mine, Monument No. 2 channel, Monument Valley, Navajo Indian Reservation, Apache Co., Arizona, USA

Description
Comments:	Crystals & bladed masses with satin-like cleavage surfaces; a small, vuggy seam of crystakls from a fossil log.
Colour:	Chocolate-brown
Quality of samples:	not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
References
References:	Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 181, 207; Witkind, I.J. & R.E. Thaden (1963), Geology and uranium-vanadium deposits of the Monument Valley area, Apache and Navajo Cos., AZ: 115; Young, R.G. (1964), Distribution of uranium deposits in the White Canyon-Monument Valley district, UT-AZ, Econ.Geol.: 59: 850-973; Stern, T.W. et al (1957), Doloresite, a new vanadium oxide mineral from the Colorado Plateau, Am.Min.: 42: 587-593; Jensen, M.L. (1958), Sulphur isotopes and the origin of sandstone-type uranium deposits, Econ.Geol.: 53: 598-616; Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of AZ: 34.
Associated minerals:
Associates:	Coffinite Corvusite Fernandinite
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Doloresite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Monument No. 2 Mine, Monument No. 2 channel, Monument Valley, Navajo Indian Reservation, Apache Co., Arizona, USA

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