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Wickenburgite from
Potter-Cramer Mine (Potter Cramer property), Vulture District, Vulture Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
| Description | |
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| 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)2Si5O17ยท6H2O, 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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