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Wickenburgite from
Potter-Cramer Mine (Potter Cramer property), Vulture District, Vulture Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA

Description
Type Locality:	Potter-Cramer Mine (Potter Cramer property), Vulture District, Vulture Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA is the type locality for Wickenburgite
Comments:	Excellent coatings and druses of transparent micro-crystals in cavities; also as dull white, granular to fine-grained masses in oxidized portion of galena-sphalerite veins.
Colour:	White, colourless, rare salmon-pink
UV Fluorescence:	Orange to magenta-red (SW UV).
Quality of samples:	not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
References
References:	Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 103, 192, 419; Williams, S.A. (1968), Wickenburgite, a new mineral from AZ, Am.Min.: 53: 1433-1438; Williams, S.A. & R.A. Bideaux (1975), Creaseyite, Cu2Pb2(Fe,Al)2Si5O17·6H2O, a new mineral from Arizona and Sonora, Min.Mag.: 40: 227-231.
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Wickenburgite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Potter-Cramer Mine (Potter Cramer property), Vulture District, Vulture Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
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