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Metazeunerite

Dan Behnke collection
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Description
Locality: 
Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope, Pershing County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.5 × 1.4 cm
Description

HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED!! You are bidding on a small sample with lots of small tabular metazeunerite crystals on matrix from Majuba Hill. Illustrated in Encyclopedia of Minerals 2nd Edition, 1990, Rocks & Minerals 11/1999 p377 and Photo Atlas of Minerals 2007. Comes with 8 original slides taken by Dan and his original collection index card. 

This sample is from the collection of Dan Behnke, long-time friend, micromounter and prodigious photographer. I am pleased to be able to offer selections from his large collection, many of which are illustrated specimens in Rocks & Minerals, The Mineralogiocal Record, Photo Atlas of Minerals and many other publications. All samples from his meticulously catalogued collection will come with his original index card with all notes, photography annotations and other pertinent information, as well as any slides Dan may have taken of the sample with publication notes and date the photo was made.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metazeunerite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.10
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Walpurgis Flacher vein, Weißer Hirsch Mine (Shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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