Cyanotrichite from
England claim, Ord Mountain Mine (Ord Mountain Mine System; Ord Mine; Ord Mountain deposits; Osborn; Rio Vista claim; Brilliant claim; Josephine claim; Belgium claim; Copper Junction claim), Ord Mountain, Ord Mountains, Ord Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Locality type: | Claim | |
Classification | ||
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Species: | Cyanotrichite | |
Formula: | Cu4Al2(SO4)(OH)12 · 2H2O | |
Comments: | The occurrence is inside the Upper England adit on a bench right next to a 20m deep shaft with great danger of falling in. That did not stop collectors from removing a significant chunk of that bench more than a meter deep and 30cm high. | |
Habit: | flat needle bunches up to few mm, sometimes in botryoidal masses | |
Colour: | sparkly sky-blue in vugs in orange matrix, sometimes silky dark blue | |
Abundance at site: | Rare | |
Confirmation | ||
Validity: | Confirmed | |
Confirmation Methods: | Raman Spectroscopy | |
Data | ||
Mineral Data: | Click here to view Cyanotrichite data | |
Locality Data: | Click here to view England claim, Ord Mountain Mine (Ord Mountain Mine System; Ord Mine; Ord Mountain deposits; Osborn; Rio Vista claim; Brilliant claim; Josephine claim; Belgium claim; Copper Junction claim), Ord Mountain, Ord Mountains, Ord Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA | |
Data Identifiers | ||
Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 1076724 | |
Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:1076724:7 | |
GUID (UUID V4): | 42aa98eb-308c-4b50-ae8d-739bca0b1418 | |
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