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Metahewettite from
Monument Valley, USA


Locality type:Valley
Classification
Species:Metahewettite
Formula:CaV6O16 · 3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Metahewettite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Monument Valley, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:660149
Long-form Identifier:1:3:660149:2
GUID (UUID V4):92f8da5b-ff88-4369-8810-9dfc305fd968
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
= Extremely soft. Reversibly dehydrates to metahewettite. D(meas.) = 2.51–2.61 D(calc.) = 2.67 Optical...11.174(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Monument No. 2 mine, Arizona, USA. 11.03 (100), 5.53 (35), 2.164 (25)...Colorado Plateau-type U–V deposits. Association: Metahewettite, corvusite, montroseite, rauvite, steigerite...deposits, USA). Distribution: From Minasragra, 46 km from Cerro de Pasco, Peru. In the USA, in the Jo...Jo Dandy mine, Bull Canyon district, Paradox Valley, Uravan district, Montrose Co., Colorado; in Utah
Report (issue)
CaV65+ O16 • 3H2 O Metahewettite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...118◦ 2(3)0 X-ray Powder Pattern: Monument No. 2 mine, Arizona, USA. 8.19 (100), 3.578 (30), 2.812 (24)... Distribution: In the USA, in the Jo Dandy and Hummer mines, Paradox Valley, Montrose Co., Colorado;...Grand Co., Utah; in Arizona, at the Monument No. 2 mine, Monument Valley, Apache Co.; in the Ambrosia Lakes...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 93305–93308. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman
Report (issue)
with local concentration of hewettite and metahewettite and small amounts of other secondary quinquivalent...been found in mines recently developed in Monument Valley, Ariz. In the Shiprock district of Arizona...the Shiprock district, ArizonaNew Mexico, Monument Valley, Ariz., and the Grants district on the north...secondary alteration, and others like Monument No. 2 mine in Monument Valley district, have scattered unoxidized...number of places in the west-central part of the Monument uplift, now called the White Canyon mining district
Report (issue)
11.65 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Gypsum Valley, Colorado, USA; recalculated to 100% after deduction of...Plateau-type U–V deposits). Association: Hewettite, metahewettite, carnotite, steigerite, tyuyamunite, gypsum... Arkansas, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from an unspecified locality in Gypsum Valley [later noted...Paradox Valley, and from the Fox mine, Uravan district, Montrose Co., Colorado; in the Monument No. 2 mine...mine, Monument Valley, Apache Co., Arizona; in the Gold Quarry mine, near Carlin, Maggie Creek district
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vanadium pentoxide, is a new mineral found in the Monument No' 2 mine on the Navajo Indian Reservation, Apache...impure samples of navajoite were collected from the Monument No. 2 mine in the Garnet Ridge quadrangle' Apache...been suggestedthat alaite may be hewettite or metahewettite (Hillebrand., Merwin, and Wright, lgl4, p. 49;...writers camefrom the south Rim workings of the Monument No. 2 mine, operatedby the vanadium corporation...depositlocatedjust north of comb Ridge in Monument valley. The ore occursin a wide, complex channel that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STRUCTURAL CONTROL OF URANIUM ORE AT THE MONUMENT NO. 2 MINE, APACHE COUNTY, ARIZONA 1 TOMMY L...carnotite, becquerelite,corvusitc,hewettite, metahewettite, rauvite, and uraniniteare the principalore...Survey. 26 TOMMY L. PINNELL INTRODUCTION Ta•. Monument No. 2 mine, approximately7« miles north of Dinnehotso...Junchon : Montro$ I I Durongo Kanob UTAH Monument •o No 2 M Ka )innehotso INDEX MAP OF PART...AXIS OF THE MONUMENT UPWARP,THE POSITION OF THE COMB MONOCLINE,AND LOCATION OF THE MONUMENT NO,2 MINE,APACHE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
structuresanalogousto syntheticLi3V6Or6, including hewettite, metahewettite,barnesite,hendersonite,and grantsite,(2) the... Fibrous bronzes Hewettite group Hewettite Metahewettite Barnesite Hendersonite Grantsite Straczekitegroup...group P2r/m, with from air-dried material from Monument Valley, Arizona, characteristicdimensionso: 12.2 +...labeled the material from gested that the term "metahewettite" be transferred to Minasragra,Peru as "hewettite"...wrote the formula for metahewettite with adox Valley, respectively)as "metahewettite," consider- gHrO in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arkansas, kidwellite, 952 Dyke lode and Pleasant Valley, Custer, S. Dakota, alluaudite, 230 East Point...Missouri, siegenite, 737 Monument No. 2 mine, Monument Valley, Arizona, metahewettite, 550 Nancy mine, N....lateritic profiles, 816 Onegoa Koumec and Diah6t Valley, deerite. 251 Solomon Islands Malaita, alnoite
Report (issue)
Newfoundland District (Newfoundland Mountains). Park Valley District (Raft River Mountains). Promontory District...(Mt. Escalante). Gold Springs District (Hamlin Valley). Iron Springs District (Iron and Granite Mountains...Belt) District (Pinto). Stateline District (Hamlin Valley). CARBON COUNTY JUAB COUNTY Tidewell and Rideout...Mountains). Osceola District (Thorpe Hills). Rush Valley (Stockton) District (W. Oquirrh Mountains). Silver...COUNTY Big Indian District (Big Indian Wash-Lisbon Valley Area). Cottonwood Canyon District (N. of Bluff)
Book (edition)
Navajo County: found at the Mitten #2 mine in Monument Valley. FERROTAPIOLITE FeTa206 FERVANITE Fe4(V04)4·5H20...META-AUTUNITE Ca(U02)z(P04)2·2-6H20 METACINNABAR HgS METAHEWETTITE CaV60 16·3H20 METANOVACE KITE Mg(U02)z(As04)2·4-8H20...molybdenite. Gila County: Castle Dome mine, Pinto Valley with other secondary minerals (MRDS database ID#...uranium-vanadium deposits. 31 Apache County: Monument No.2 mine, found on Harvard Mineralogical Museum... commun., 1999). Navajo County: Big Chief mine, Monument Valley (Shirley Wetmore, pers. commun., 1999). URANOSPINITE
Report (volume)
Geology and U rani urnVanadium Deposits of the Monument Valley Area Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona By...MINERALOGY AND PARAGENESIS OF THE ORE DEPOSIT AT THE MONUMENT NO. 2 AND CATO SELLS MINES By DONALD H. JOHNSON...Mines--------------~----------------------------------------- Monument No. 2 mine_____________________________________...Geology______________________________________________ Monument No.2 channeL______________________________ Uranium...Mines-Continued • Monument No. 2 mine-Continued Mineralogy and paragenesis of the Monument No. 2 and Cato
Report (volume)
Melanovanadinite, Ca2(V0)4V 6021----- _ Vanadate ____ --Metahewettite, CaV 60I6·9H20 _____________ do ___ -_---Metaros~ite...crystal structure of a sodium-calcium variety of metahewettite: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 7, pt. 2, p. 219-235... W. H. p. 689-691, 1955. "Hewettite" and "metahewettite": Am. Mineralogist, v. 40, 00113 Barnes, W...Further data on the chemical composition of Zhob Valley chromites: Am. Mineralogist, v. 48, p. 573-587...Gray, I. B. Evaluation of uranium ore guides, Monument Valley, Arizona and Utah: Econ. Geology, v. 53, no
Report (issue)
southeast of Granite Reef Dam and in the Salt River Valley. Mohave County-Aquarius Range, 30 miles south of...rhombohedron. Certain plants in the upper Verde Valley carry toxic amounts of selenium obtained from the...district. Patagonia Mountains, La Plata and Meadow Valley mines, Redrock district; January, Blue Eagle, Flux... Santa Cruz County-Patagonia Mountains, Meadow Valley, Sunnyside, and Blue Eagle mines. PARAMELACO~ITE...south of Boulder Dam, in veins. Little Chemehuevis Valley, in veins and shear zones, Arizona Manganese claims
Book (edition)
Lee Le 2A 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits Monument Valley The Cameron Area 24 24 Ld 4. “Mine Fire”...uranium- and vanadium-rich areas occur in Monument Valley of extreme northeastern Arizona; others are...deposits. MONUMENT VALLEY The famous Monument No. 2 mine, situated in Monument Valley, has been studied...respect to uranium and vanadium occurrence in Monument Valley are in the Shinarump Member of the Triassic...deposits which form the richest ore bodies in the Monument No. 2 mine. The rods are annular in cross section
Book (edition)
17 17 21 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits Monument Valley The Cameron Area 24 24 27 4. "Mine Fire"...uranium- and vanadium-rich areas occur in Monument Valley of extreme northeastern Arizona; others are...Plateau-type deposits. MONUMENT VALLEY The famous Monument No. 2 mine, situated in Monument Valley, has been studied...respect to uranium and vanadium occurrence in Monument Valley are in the Shinarump Member of the Triassic...deposits which form the richest ore bodies in the Monument No. 2 mine. The rods are annular in cross section
Book (edition)
County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll The Cameron Area 85 Breccia...Minerals at Tiger, Pinal County 79 Minerals in Monument Valley, Navajo County 84 Secondary minerals in the...was "muy duro." These pieces were brought from a valley in a small mountain chain about forty miles southeast...east of the road leading to Tuvaca [Tubac]. In the valley, fragments similar to those seen, and of various...occurrence of this metal, the valley was called "Canada de Hierro," or iron valley. Silver mines of great richness
Book (volume)
agates. FOURMILE, W 14 mi. to Jewel Cave National Monument, then N up Hell Canyon from US 16, areaď‚ľbanded...316, then W to Carter Ranch and S along Pleasant Valley Cr. in Red Canyon, areaď‚ľbanded agate, Jade, jasper...siding) and all area outside the Cycad national Monumentď‚ľsilicified cycad stumps. OELRICHS, E from hwy...distinct and well defined geological provinces: the valley of eastern Tennessee, the Cumberland plateau, the...Plateau Slope of Western Tennessee, the Western Valley, and the Mississippian Alluvial Plain. The Cumberland
Report (volume)
County, Nev.... Lander County, Nev.. ...... . Virgin Valley opal district........ Lyon County, Nev........... . Monument Valley (includes Copper Canyon, Hunts Mesa, Nokai Mesa, Hoskinninni Mesa and Monument No...No. 1, Monument No. 2, Skyline and Whirlwind mines) .. ..... Black Mesa ._...............................quadrangle, Egnar-Gypsum Valley quadrangle, Gateway area, Long Park, Paradox Valley, Pine Mountain quadrangle...Gray Dawn mine) _ .. -_ Big Indian Wash Lisbon Valley area (includes Mi Vida mine, Big Buck mine. Purple
Book (edition)
Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S: The Cameron Area 85 Breccia...Minerals at Tiger, Pinal County 79 Minerals in Monument Valley, Navajo County 84 Secondary minerals in the...was “muy duro.” These pieces were brought from a valley in a small mountain chain about forty miles southeast...east of the road leading to Tuvaca [Tubac]. In the valley, fragments similar to those seen, and of various...occurrence of this metal, the valley was called “Cafiada de Hierro,” or iron valley. Silver mines of great richness
Report (issue)
basalts, including chiefly minette in the Monument Valley and Shiprock areas and limburgite, monchiquite...exposed in the central part of the San Rafael, Monument, Kaibab, Defiance, and Zuni uplifts and in the...known as the San Rafael Swell, Circle Cliffs, Monument, Defiance, and Zuni uplifts each bordered IGNEOUS...During the period 1948-53 several large mines the Monument No. 2 mine, Apache County, Ariz.; the Happy Jack...the uppermost sandstone. In the Big Indian-Lisbon Valley area ore is mined from the Cutler formation (Permian)
Book (edition)
construction stone, but are a source of smaller monument and decorative facing stone:• This reference lists...these locations is in Hewitt Canyon, near Queen Valley, Pinal County. It has pale pink-, green-, and white-striped...Petrified Forest National Monument was established in 1906 with 44,000 acres. The monument had 53,000 acres added...Mountains, Red Rock District, La Plata and Meadow Valley Mines (Bull. 181); Flux District, January, Blue...in granite porphyry (Schwartz 1947, 1956). Pinto Valley District, Castle Dome Mine, a product of hydrothermal
Report (volume)
of volcanic origin has been reported from the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska; from 1\::risuvik...Idaho. Yellow Pine district_ ______________________ Valley _________ _ Do.• Blackbird district__________________________...------------·----- Grand _________ _ Do. « Paradox Valley---------------------------- San Juan _______ _..._________ _ Do. a Uravan, Bull Canyon, Paradox Valley, Montrose ______ _ Do. Placerville districts. 1...cality ~ 00 M ~ ~ 2 Slick Rock and Gypsum Valley districts___ Cortez and Rico districts _____ ------------__
Report (volume)
Formation in the Orange Cliffs, White Canyon, and Monument Valley areas, Utah (Stewart, 1957). The Temple Mountain...the contact of the Shinarump and Moenkopi at the Monument 2 mine in northern Arizona, and many years ago...graphically removing the structural effect of the Monument upwarp on the rocks southeast of the swell, McKeown...secondary vanadium minerals pascoite, hewettite or metahewettite, and corvusite are apparently confined to the...1957, Structural control of uranium ore at the Monument No. 2 mine, Apache County, Arizona: Econ. Geology
Report (volume)
and Gulbrandsen, R. A., 1955, Geology of the Dry Valley quadrangle, Idaho. $1. Harris, R. A., Davidson...C. S., 1956, Geology of Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. 50$. 16 Index No. CONTRIBUTIONS TO...deposits at base of the Shinarump conglomerate, Monument Valley, Arizona. 65*. (D) Bush, A. L., and Stager...Uranium-bearing minerals in placer deposits of the Red River Valley, Idaho County, Idaho. 30$. (D) Johnson, H. S.,...Staatz, M. H., and Bauer, H. L., Jr., 1951, Virgin Valley opal district, Humboldt County, Nev. Page, L. R
Report (issue)
_________________________________________ _ Sinbad Valley anticline _____________________ _ Roc Creek syncline...geology-Continued Folds-Continued Castle Valley-Paradox Valley anticline _______ _ Willow Basin syncline... --Longitudinal faults _____ -- ______ --_-----Valley View fault ________________ - - Dugway fault _...__ Uranium Girl mine__________________________ Valley View mine___________________________ Vanadium Queen...large wash are widely distributed on the mesas and valley floors. The stratigraphy of the area is summarized
 
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