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Strengite from
Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Iron Point Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Strengite
Formula:FePO4 · 2H2O
Comments:Also confirmed by optics. Associated with variscite, wavellite, and turquoise
Habit:balls of tiny prismatic crystals
Colour:red, pink
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:SEM-EDS
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Wavellite1 photo of Strengite associated with Wavellite at this locality.
Jarosite1 photo of Strengite associated with Jarosite at this locality.
Turquoise1 photo of Strengite associated with Turquoise at this locality.
Fluorwavellite1 photo of Strengite associated with Fluorwavellite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Strengite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Iron Point Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:37300
Long-form Identifier:1:3:37300:3
GUID (UUID V4):1ec8376a-ffaa-4dd3-8e52-81d58c304bfb
Nearest other occurrences of Strengite
84.0km (52.2 miles) Carlin Gold mine, Elko, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
95.0km (59.0 miles) Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek Mining Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA Department of Mineralogy...Helberta Avenue, #2, Redondo Beach, California 90277, USA Geosciences, Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne...(IMA2009 087) from the Silver Coin mine, Nevada, USA and the Krásno ore district, Hornı́ Slavkov, Czech...Czech Republic. At Silver Coin, iangreyite occurs as thin, colourless to white or cream, hexagonal tablets...meurigite-Na, plumbogummite, kidwellite, lipscombite, strengite, chalcosiderite, wardite, leucophosphite, wavellite
Report (issue)
NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)2F2·2H2O Fluorowardite Crystal Data: Tetragonal. Point Group: 422. As tetragonal bipyramidal crystals,... X-ray Powder Pattern: Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. 4.766 (100), 3.099 (75)...3.98 13.45 100.00 (1) Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA; average of 8 electron microprobe...millisite (F-rich), morinite, quartz, rockbridgeite, strengite/variscite, turquoise/chalcosiderite. Minerals...phosphate stope, Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. Name: The fluorine
Report (issue)
Ca2Al7(PO4)2(PO3OH)2(OH,F)15·8H2O Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point Group: 32. As hexagonal tablets (sometimes warped)...707(3) Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Silver Coin mine, Nevada, USA. 16.739 (100), 2.967 (45), 2.219 (19)...05 0.05 8.23 3.46 24.96 100.00 (1) Silver Coin mine, Nevada, USA; average of 7 electron microprobe analyses...01Zn0.01P3.81F5.24 H30.21O33.76. (2) Krásno ore district, Horní Slavkov, Czech Republic; average of 12...Meurigite-Na, plumbogummite, kidwellite, lipscombite, strengite, chalcosiderite, wardite, leucophosphite, wavellite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, California...locality of meurigite-Na is the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district, Nevada, where it occurs as radial...fibers (thin laths) to 0.4 mm in length. At the Silver Coin mine, meurigite-Na occurs very late in a paragenetic...leucophosphite, lipscombite/zinclipscombite, kidwellite, strengite/ variscite, crandallite/perhamite, and jarosite...phosphofibrite, new mineral, crystal chemistry, Silver Coin mine intRoduction One of the authors (P.M.A.)
Report (issue)
Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic. Point Group: 2/m, 2, or m. As tabular {001} to fibrous...26(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Santa Rita mine, New Mexico, USA. 3.216 (100), 4.84 (90), 3.116 (80), 4.32...17.74 Total 99.37 100.00 (1) Santa Rita mine, New Mexico, USA; by electron microprobe, average of five...of a copper sulfide deposit (Santa Rita mine, New Mexico, USA); by alteration of triphylite in granite...Carlin-type hydrothermal gold deposit (Gold Quarry mine, Nevada, USA). Association: Dufrénite, beraunite, leucophosphite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluorine analog of wardite from the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Nevada Anthony R. Kampf1,*, Paul M. Adams2...Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...mineral from the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district, Humboldt County, Nevada, U.S.A., where it...spectroscopy; electron microprobe analysis; Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Nevada Introduction Wardite, NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4·2H2O...well-known Clay Canyon deposit near Fairfield in Utah County, which is also the type locality for englishite
Journal (issue)
identify many minerals in my collection. 4 A Point to Ponder Noel Kennon (Reprinted from the Australian...and finding new material, such as:  Current day mining operations – Blast it!  Litigation-minded people...material recently discovered at the Blue Lizard Mine in southeastern Utah has produced a whole set of...the Silver Coin Mine. IMA No. 2015-077 Fluorwavellite Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F·5H2O Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron...Iron Point district, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA (40°55’44”N, 117° 19’26”W), and Wood mine, 5 miles NE of
Report (issue)
Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Tetragonal. Point Group: 422. aggregates; massive. Physical Properties:... c = 12.81 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Sapucaia mine, Brazil. 3.314 (10), 3.206 (6), 1.656 (4), 1.601...4.60 Total 99.93 99.29 100.00 (1) Sapucaia mine, Brazil; corresponds (2) Anloua, Cameroon; corresponds...phosphate zone of a complex granite pegmatite (Sapucaia mine, Brazil). Association: Cyrilovite, leucophosphite...phosphosiderite, frondelite (Sapucaia mine, Brazil); heterosite, strengite, cyrilovite, leucophosphite (Hagendorf
Report (issue)
Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point Group: 2/m 2/m 2/m. Dipyramidal crystals, dominant...158(5) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Stenna Gwynn mine, Cornwall, England. (ICDD 19-38). 6.48 (100), 3...Association: Fluorapatite, wavellite, phosphosiderite, strengite, aldermanite, cacoxenite, variscite, turquoise...Distribution: In England, in Cornwall, from the Stenna Gwynn mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannel, and at the Goonvean china...the Pereta mine, Scansano, Tuscany, Italy. In the USA, from the Carolina pyrophyllite mine, Staley, Randolph
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Huber open pit, Czech Republic and the Silver Coin mine, Nevada, USA S. J. MILLS1,*, J. SEJKORA2, A. R. KAMPF3...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA CSIRO Process Science...Helberta Avenue, #2, Redondo Beach, California 90277, USA Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University...open pit, Krásno ore district, Czech Republic and the Silver Coin mine, Nevada, USA. Krásnoite is the...reach 0.1 mm on edge at Krásno and 0.4 mm at Silver Coin. At both localities, krásnoite occurs very late
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...sources dealing specifically with that subject. Three iron meteorite occurrences are included because they...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk
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December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals are a traditional...analyses show the presence of minor calcium, magnesium, iron, and/or chromium. Green wavellite owes its attractive...3-cm-tall wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas; kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd photo...Limestone Company quarry, Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The 2.8 × 2.7 × 1.5-cm specimen...primary pegmatitic phosphates. It is found with iron phosphates in certain ecomonic “limonite” deposits
Journal (issue)
ARTICLES: Chalcophanite from the Mou'nt Stewart Mine Leadville, NSW. England, B.M. 1�):9-11 Definition... A. 2(1):21-24 Heulandite from the Illawarra District, NSW. Carr, P., Perkins, M., Chenhall, B., Pemberton...Nickel, E. 1(2):27 Minerals from. t� Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Beyer, B. and...Elliott, P. 2(2):57-70 The minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania. Haupt, J., Bottrill, R. and Sorrell,...Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Birch, W.D. 2(2):47-50 Post-mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PHOSPHATE MINERAL PARAGENESIS AT THE SILVER COIN MINE, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA, P. M. Adams. 126 S. Helberta...2, Redondo Beach, CA 90277. The Silver Coin mine was a small silver producer where a diverse assemblage...minerals is given by Thomssen and Wise (2004). The mine has become known for crystalline turquoise and is...krásnoite, fluorowardite, and ferribushmakinite. At the mine, small Cretaceous igneous bodies intrude black cherts...areas are the phosphate, copper, arsenate, and silver stopes, named for their predominant mineralogies
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
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"Recent Rare Mineral Finds at Southern California and Nevada Mines". Bob is an active member of the Mineralogical...National Park, on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada range. Here, on a forty-acre property complete...he beg;m working on microminerals of the Sierra Nevada foothills. His basic micromount collection was...was "Micromincrals at Rock Island Dam, Douglas County, Washington" in the May/June 1991 issue of Rocks... To my surprise, the needle showed in XRF to be iron titanium oxide in the same proportions as the ilmenite
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
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in Nevada Martin Jensen Earth Science Consultants Associated 1242 Glendale Avenue Sparks, Nevada 89413...may come as somewhat or a surprise to learn that Nevada could actually be considered a prominent worldwide...have been exposed by recent or currently active mining operations. The following disContinued on page...Gold Quarry Mine, Eureka County, Nevada. from the Radersburg District, Broadwater County, Montana Mike...small wulfcnite crystals found at the Broadwater County, Montana (Sec. 28, T 5 N, R 1 W), some interesting
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............. 51 Minerals from the Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia B. Beyer & P................ 57 Heulandite from the Illawarra District, NSW P. Carr, M. Perkins, B. Chenhall, f. Pemberton...of interesting mineral discoveries in the western USA. FRANCIS COLLECTION WEB SITES The Mineralogical...collections and research projects. A good starting point for visitors looking for mineral sites on the Web...unearthed the rare calcium hydroxide portlandite, a silver iodide mineral and several more rare phosphates
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Aluminocoquibite, AlFe(SO4)3·9H2O, a new aluminum iron sulfate form Gortta Dell’Allume, Vulcano, Aeolian...Bariopharmacoalumite (IMA 2010-041) from the copper mine of Cap Garonne, near the town of Le Pradet, Var...mineral species from the Silver Coin mine, Nevada, U.S.A., and the Krásno ore district, Horní Slavkov, Czech...Czech Republic. The host rocks of iangreyite at Silver Coin are thin-bedded quartzite, argillite, and phosphatic...meurigite-Na, plumbogummite, kidwellite, lipscombite, strengite, chalcosiderite, wardite, leucophosphite, wavellite
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...in y u lite from the W illard m in e, P ershing County, N e v a d a ....................................rejoiced, like everyone else, in the fal of the Iron Curtain, the end of Soviet Communism, the reunifica...Record, volume 31, July-August, 20C Sweet Home Mine Special Issue. Since living in Connecticut I have...fund-raising technique being used by the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. It’s called the “Adopta-mineral”
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together entire sets showing how elements such as iron and copper, change with the addition of sulphur... 2 Mineral News I found a small piece of native iron (meteoric) at the first booth I stopped, Earthworks...meteorites too (bought the small native meteoric iron piece (see above) for $3.00!), but I cannot judge...France, had mostly fossils and meteorites, both iron and glass, which is his specially, and other interesting...spent a good bit of time with Walter Lombardo (Nevada Mineral and Book Co.). He has really nice books
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
c 13.785(8) Å, β 111.5(5)° and V 1708(1) Å3. Strengite was observed as spherical aggregates of white...00·2H2O (strengite I; association with natrodufrénite); Fe0.92Al0.06(PO4)1.00·2H2O (strengite II; association...turquoise); Fe0.84Al0.10((PO4)0.98(VO4)0.02)Σ1.00·2H2O (strengite III; association with kidwellite); refined unit-cell...on the surface of spherical aggregates of the strengite II; its empirical formula is Al0.87Fe0.14(PO4)1...fluorwavellite, variscite, kidwellite, natrodufrénite, strengite, phosphate occurence, uranium minerals, unit-cell
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