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Wavellite from
Slate Mountain Mine, Slate Mountain, Slate Mountain District, Slate Mountains, El Dorado County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Wavellite
Formula:Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3 · 5H2O
Comments:Occurs as veins and crusts in quartz in well-formed prismatic crystals and massive material.
Habit:Prismatic
Colour:Colourless; pale green (massive material)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Cacoxenite
Crandallite
Quartz
Rutile
Variscite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartzⓘ4 photos of Wavellite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Crandalliteⓘ1 photo of Wavellite associated with Crandallite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wavellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Slate Mountain Mine, Slate Mountain, Slate Mountain District, Slate Mountains, El Dorado County, California, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (16 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:135765
Long-form Identifier:1:3:135765:3
GUID (UUID V4):b6844856-97fe-44a2-818b-875eca4d7dbd
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 07:22 29 December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals...many collectors’ first phosphate specimen was a wavellite from one of the traditional Arkansas localities...recently been the source of some of the finest wavellite ever found, and, consequently, one Dr. Robert...selected as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Wavellite is an often-colorful mineral, ranging from white...hardness is 3.5–4, and its measured density is 2.36. Wavellite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (2/m2/m2/m)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mainstay of the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He made his presence felt and will...Fallbrook, California. Until 2018 the symposium had taken place in the San Bernardino County Museum in...53rd Pacific Micromount Conference in Fallbrook, California, shows. Steve Stuart photo. day speaker was...Collecting in Mineral County, Nevada, in which he covered localities in the Cadelaria district, including the...Potosi mines and parts of the Candelaria Silver mine. General micromount schmoozing followed Paul until
Catalog/List
San Mateo, California 94403 U.S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla...HATFiaD GOUDEY 1145 \'/est 31st Avenue San Mateo, California 94403 U.S.A. COMTENTS General Information....c;uoi:ed are F .0. B. San fl,aceo, Cali fornia. California add applicable state sales tax. SHIPPING CHARGES...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
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7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
Journal (issue)
of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ..................... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M....Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Report (issue)
C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com­ mon rock-making materials...to occur only as traces. ACCOMACK COUNTY: none given. ALBEMARLE COUNTY: actinolitc, agate, almandine, amethyst
Journal (volume)
Planes of the Old Red Sandstone Conglomerate of the County of Waterford. By the Rev. S. Haughton, 16 On the...Limestone, Sandstone, and Granite at Oughterard, County of Galway. By J. Birmingham, Esq., 26 The Drift...Relations of the Cambrian Rocks of Bray (County of Wicklow) and Howth (County of Dublin) ; with Notices of the... found by J. II. Kinahan, Esq., near Loughill, County of Limerick. By A. Gages, ... 73 On the Occurrence...Rush, County of Dublin, and of Potidonia lateralis in the Carboniferous Slate of Kinsale, County of Cork
Report (issue)
/A . .· . . , . are exposed chieny-\in the ··mountain ranges and hills • . · . · . .. .·. .; >, ~ ...-lower members of the "Red Beds" of the Rocky Mountain region.'~1 Its ~O·' f,·~:~'b~~~fitimated ;~t...determinations of the rocks in the, Ro~hester district near the _._- middle pa.rt or the. range by Jones-...~:i:h76~oi~~.~~ ore de;o~its. of the Roch~ster. District,,~~~~3/ .--~.-:~?·\;-X/t~~~~-;;~~~~;r~ Schrader...Schrader, Frank c., The Rochester Mining District, Nev.: Bull. "580, PP• 325-372, 1915• u. s. G. 's·:~t:
Book (edition)
an entrance.] The horizontal entrance to a mine. An oxyd Alkali, and taste, having an acrid...part of the coal secalled also carboniferous Mountain limestone. ries ; limestone. Muffle, 317. Nacreous...aggregates. ores are minerals, while granite rock, slate, clay and the This compound character is like, are...no such nourishing fluid. is as perfect as the mountain mass. only by additions to the surface from some...the bars of the window ; or, what is better, on a slate or board placed before the observer on the table
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of the Ali-Mirsa-Kuh mountains near Nishapur, Iran and in the Kara Tube mountains near Samarkand (Eichholz...Saxony in Germany. Numerous deposits in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah were...rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals include...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in...Dakota, especially at the Beecher Lode, Custer County, as masses up to 200 tons in weight; as rounded
Journal (volume)
t/ciettceA Digitized by the Internet Archive in California 2011 with funding from Academy of Sciences...Want me from equally prevent others from a district of such magnitude and interis so great, and... its from the want of an accurate arises mountains, extremely is Sketch of the rivers, bays,...enumerate. its these, the southernmost is the district and parish of Sleat, a of moderate and irregular...elevation, terminating in the high group of mountains which approaches the main land, and which, in
Report (issue)
3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA CopyrightŠ 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 121...Hen1in1orphite Azurile Barite, N1eikJe Mine Barite, '\forthun1berland Mine Bante, Rosebud t1ine Barile v;ith...inclusions Bolt½'OOdite Calcite, Meikle Mine Calcite, Getchell Mine Callaghanite Cassiterite and Hema tile
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright Š 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph... The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine...Nightingale district Quartz epimorph after Calcite Agardite Grossular, Buena Vista district Quartz (amethyst)
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
Journal (issue)
Patricia A. Pierkowski 44 ROSES IN THE TURTLE MOUNTAINS 47 LET THE ANTS DO YOUR COLLECTING Find them...Federation CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES 0111~1"1 KING OF THE MOUNTAIN A collector's...MINERALS - 7 Amethyst from Hallelujah Junction , California. Three inches long. Grizzley Ridge quartz with...Art Reno Gem and M ineral Societ y of San Mateo County things which cannot be broken down to any further...as is jasper. The northern part of our state (California) is particularly blessed with an abundance of
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...right) topaz, Thomas Mountains, Utah; (lower /eft) rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower...(lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower right, center) mimetite, Tsiimehb, Namibia;...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD
Book (edition)
Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine...n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode , Su1nmit County . rt is also found in Canada, Mexico
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...right) topaz, Thomas Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
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the Superpit is Australia’s largest open pit gold mine and is one of the largest open pit mines in the...Green Dresden Green | Probably from the Kollur Mine in India, this 41-carat natural green diamond is...T the Koh-i-noor as part of the treaty that (“Mountain of Light”) incorporated the Punjab into diamond...Discovered in an fewer than 0.5 parts per million Indian mine in the 18th century, (ppm), but areas of the Hope...“balas rubies,” taking their name from a famous mine in present-day Afghanistan. Russian envoy Nikolai
 
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