| Locality type: | Quarry |
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| Species: | Whelanite |
| Formula: | Cu22+Ca6[Si6O17(OH)](CO3)(OH)3 · 2H2O |
| Comments: | Specimen was collected by Fred DeVito and is now in the collection of Brent Thorne. Visually identified by similarities of occurence, associations, and characteristics of material from the Christmas mine, Arizona and the Bawana pit, Utah.
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Stringhamite | ⓘ1 photo of Whelanite associated with Stringhamite at this locality. |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Whelanite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (2 photos) |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 166110 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:166110:1 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 8aab3f34-d367-4ad4-a5b9-7d5b2ca24bd6 |
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Kampf, A. R., Mills, S. J., Merlino, S., Pasero, M., McDonald, A. M., Wray, W. B., Hindman, J. R. (2012) Whelanite, Cu2Ca6[Si6O17(OH)](CO3)(OH)3(H2O)2, an (old) new mineral from the Bawana mine, Milford, Utah. American Mineralogist, 97 (11) 2007-2015 doi:10.2138/am.2012.4181 |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | polysome: The Mn-free analog of ganomalite from Crestmore, California Anthony R. Kampf1,*, Robert M. Housley2...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, U.S.A. 2 Division...and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, U.S.A. 1 Abstract...mineral from the Commercial quarry, Crestmore, Riverside County, California, where it occurs as a metasomatic...polysome, ganomalite, lone-electron pairs, Crestmore, California Introduction Ganomalite was first described |
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Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA