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Wavellite from
Willard Mine, Willard Mining District, Humboldt Range, Pershing County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Wavellite
Formula:Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3 · 5H2O
Comments:Some or all of these may be fluorwavellite as Kampf et al (2017) found only fluorwavellite in their analyses.
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartzⓘ20 photos of Wavellite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Fluelliteⓘ19 photos of Wavellite associated with Fluellite at this locality.
Varisciteⓘ12 photos of Wavellite associated with Variscite at this locality.
Cacoxeniteⓘ10 photos of Wavellite associated with Cacoxenite at this locality.
Crandalliteⓘ9 photos of Wavellite associated with Crandallite at this locality.
Seleniumⓘ6 photos of Wavellite associated with Selenium at this locality.
Jarositeⓘ1 photo of Wavellite associated with Jarosite at this locality.
Goethiteⓘ1 photo of Wavellite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Gypsumⓘ1 photo of Wavellite associated with Gypsum at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wavellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Willard Mine, Willard Mining District, Humboldt Range, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (17 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:39404
Long-form Identifier:1:3:39404:2
GUID (UUID V4):0080e383-2f5e-439e-9f7a-939177818ecb
Nearest other occurrences of Wavellite
67.3km (41.8 miles) ⓘRosebud Mine (Hecla Rosebud Mine), Rosebud Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
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...hydrous aluminum phosphate minerals, including wavellite, variscite, metavariscite, Ouellite, planerite...the minerals which have een observed. Occurrences range from mere rock outcrops to abandoned prospects to...have been exposed by recent or currently active mining operations. The following disContinued on page
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)
Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F⋅5H2O, the fluorine analog of wavellite Anthony R. Kampf1,*, Paul M. Adams2, Henry Barwood3...Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...analog of wavellite, is a new mineral from the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district, Humboldt County...County, Nevada, and the Wood mine, 5 miles NE of Del Rio, Cocke County, Tennessee; at both occurrences it...mineral. Fluorwavellite is essentially identical to wavellite in appearance and physical properties. Optically
Report (issue)
Wavellite Al3 (PO4 )2 (OH, F)3 • 5H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...Pattern: Black River Falls, Jackson Co., Wisconsin, USA. 8.67 (100), 8.42 (100), 3.22 (60), 5.65 (50), 3...Tipperary, Ireland. In Germany, in the Rotläufchen mine, Waldgirmes, at the Dünsberg, near Giessen, from...France. In the USA, from General Trimble’s mine, Chester Co., Pennsylvania; in the Wood mine, Cocke Co.,...Montgomery Co., Arkansas; in the Willard mine, Willard district, Pershing Co., Nevada. In Bolivia, fine examples
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 ....................................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”...Education instructor in the Long Beach Unified School District, at Long Beach City College, and in the Long Beach
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
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 CopyrightŠ 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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WASHINGTON May 6, 2000 9:30 am to 6:30 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...AT THE BAIRD CREEK QUARRY, WOLF POINT, COWLITZ COUNTY, WASHINGTON by Rudy W. Tschcmich 526 Avenue A Snohomish...contains fewer cavities than the porphyritic rock and range from I to 4 inches in diameter. They are usually...******** MINERALS OF THE LAST CHANCE MINE, SKAMANIA COUNTY, WASHINGTON Don Howard and Bill Tompkins...that have come to be known as the Washougal mining district. 1 The area is composed geologically of the
Report (issue)
Association: Dufrénite, apatite, fluellite, wavellite, variscite, leucophosphite. Distribution: In...Antarctic Territory, Antarctica. From the Pereta mine, Scansano, Tuscany, Italy. In Belgium, at Richelle...the USA, found near Cockalorum Wash, Nye Co., and at the Willard mine, Willard district, Pershing Co...., Nevada; in the Ross Hannibal mine, Lawrence Co., South Dakota; on Utahlite Hill, eight km northwest...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 96769. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman, and
Journal (issue)
COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...(rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes ...World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful
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TV-zenders, zoals VRT, VTM, RTBF, ATV. Ook in de USA haalde het nieuws talrijke TV-stations, zij het dan...- Marmor aus Italien - Bildersandstein aus Utah/USA 14-20 Pietra Paesina 21-23 Landschafts-Sandsteine:...in Rock, Illinois, USA 1-4 Denver shows 2001 5 Pea Ridge mine closes (Missouri, USA) * DER AUFSCHLUSS...Graveglia manganese district, Liguria, Italy 393-400 The Shirley Ann claim, Inyo County, California 403-405...voorbereid. De CD bevatte foto’s van het Sterling Hill Mining Museum, het Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence
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phosphate minerals from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, A rkansas.......................................unusual quartz pipe deposits o f the Kingsgate mining area were among Australia's leading producers o...bismuth in the early 1900s. In the course o f active mining some o f the world's finest specimens o f molybdenite...micromount material. T INTRODUCTION The Kingsgate mining area lies in rugged, heavily wooded coun­ try near...1800s, one of the richest and most important tin mining districts in the world. The early prospectors,
Journal (issue)
recent review of MinDex 2004 discussed a search of wavellite localities. It made me think about the wavellites...documentation in popular periodicals. Florida wavellite has often been discussed in the technical press...that wavellite is an objectionable aluminum contaminant in the phosphate rock products. Wavellite spherulites... I know of only one brief mention of Florida wavellite in the popular mineral press -an abstract on vivianite...March 1, 1992 issue of Rocks & Minerals. Florida wavellite got a public relations boost when a photo by Dan
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BEGINNERS' SPECIAL, $1 postpaid. Visitors welcome. Willard Olson. New Port Richey, Florida. ROCKS AND MINERALS... Nebraska. OPALS, BRILLIANT COLORS-Direct from mine, 15 for $5.00. 10 ringsize cabochons (opal, amethyst...Barite crested and "rabbit-ears." Drusy quartz. Wavellite. Fluorspar with inclusions, fluorescent. Conichalcite...MINERALS - Boxed, mounted, and identified, postpaid USA, $2.00. Specimens average approx. 1 " . Irma Curry...chunks only, from one lb. and up, right out of the mine. Postage or freight extra. John B. Guillemin, Box
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stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...though, Colorado contains none of the Basin and Range Province that provides a geological environment...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and
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824 Hoosier Ave., Evansville, Indiana. WE ARE MINING EVERY DAY-Gem material shipped, mixed 100 lbs....for the cutter and gem trade. Morton Minerals & Mining, 21423 Highway 66, R.F.D. 1, Barstow, Calif. GEMSTONES—"In...D MINERALS OPALS, BRILLIANT COLORS-Direct from mine, 15 for 55.00. 10 ringsize cabochons (opal, amethyst...VIOLARITE NICKEL CRYSTALS-Fluorite, fine calotes, wavellite, anthodites, Franklins, fluorescents, many minerals... All guaranteed for fortifications. Postpaid in USA. the Breitweisers, 510B N. Division, Powell, W y
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Tri-State District! The Mineralogical Record MARCH-APRIL 2017 • VOLUME 48 NUMBER 2 • $25 The Tri-State...Tri-State Mining District Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma by Denise Bicknell Wendell E. Wilson 2017 The Mineralogical...FineMineral.com APATITE Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 11.5cm. Fine Minerals...Tucson USA Visit us at these international shows: Houston Ste. Marie Denver Munich USA France USA Germany...and Riverpark Inn Rhodochrosite, Sweet Home Mine, USA, 10 cm Photo: Malte Sickinger MARCUS BUDIL Monaco
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2-3/2 2-3/2 9-10/2 9-10/2 16-17/2 16-17/2 17/2 USA F F A B F F F F B 23-24/2 23-24/2 23-24/2 23-24/2...297-303 Wavellite, fluellite and minyulite from the Willard mine, Pershing County, Nevada, USA 305-307...Kassel, Nordhessen 27-29 Kylindrit von der Itos Mine, Oruro, Bolivien 30-34 Neufunde aus den Pegmatiten...234-241 The Copper Mountain pegmatite district (Fremont County, Wyoming, USA) 242-247 Who's who in mineral names...Clark) 248-251 Cuprite (Mashamba West mine, Shaba, congo and Red Dome mine, Queensland, Australia) 252-258
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Canada. 276 KENTUCKY FOSSILS-New find in Bath County. Brachiopods, platystrophias, Ordovician. Five...Specimen in matrix, 2V2", $1.25 postpaid. Anderson County Corals, fine, reddish, 2 " x 3 " , $1. Satisfaction...specimens. All for $7.50 postpaid. Morton Minerals & Mining, 21423 Highway 66, R.F.D. 1, Barstow, Calif. IDAHO...LOUIS, 14, MO. OPALS, BRILLIANT COLORS-Direct from mine, 15 for $5.00. 10 ringsize cabochons (opal, amethyst...piece guaranteed for fortifications. Postpaid in USA. The Breitweisers, 510-B N. Division, Powell, Wyo
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welcome. Richey, Florida. ADVANCED the is Willard stones Demantoid of available 16 "Phantom''... world's Spinel. from stocks o f permit 20 mine, (opal, Mexico. STRICTLY WHOLESALE chon from...MINERALS - Boxed, mount ed, and identified, postpaid USA, $2.00. Specimens average approx. 1 " . Irma Curry...chunks only, from one lb. and up, right out of the mine. Postage or freight extra. John B. Guillemin, Box... lots. Rock and Gem Shop, 518 West Walnut St., Nevada, Mo. TURQUOISE FOR SALE — Turquoise in the rough
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chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
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2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.50 WAVELLITE, Co. Cork, Eire. Radiated globular, dark green... . . • • • • • • • • • • • • l .50 VASHEGYITE, Nevada. Veins in green Opal , polished mass. 7 x l~2 x1...twinned purple xi. 2 l ·2" on group 5 x 3 5.50 WAVELLITE , Hellertown, Pa. White globular aggre gates on......................................628 NEWTON WILLARD H ARRIS (OBITUARY NOTICE) ........ ...................................... 630 D R. DANIEL E. WILLARD (OBlTUARY N OTICE.) .. ............ .-........
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824 Hoosier Ave., Evansville, Indiana. WE ARE MINING EVERY DAY-Gem material shipped, mixed 100 lbs....for the cutter and gem trade. Morton Minerals & Mining, 21423 Highway 66, R.F.D. 1, Barstow, Calif. GEMSTONES—"In...Pyrite-quartz-zinc and lead crystals all in one. Wavellite, fluorescents, calcite géodes, nodules, anthodites...Overland 14, Mo. OPALS, BRILLIANT COLORS-Direct from mine, 15 for $5.00. 10 ringsize cabochons (opal, amethyst...Florence, Colo. BARITE ROSES—Choice from Cleveland County, Oklahoma. $1.00 to $5.00. Postpaid. Willliam Hiss
 
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