Kazakhstanite

Kazakhstanite with  fervanite
  
Fine, micro crystals of kazakhstanite (black) with varying alterations of other vanadium and uranium minerals: fervanite (gold-brown), tyuyamunite (yellow) and hewettite (reddish).
Black velvety coating on matrix
Origin: Gold Quarry mine, Eureka Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4x4x2cm with velvety black kazakhstanite and yellow fervanite, both as micro coatings on shaley matrix (top), 9 x 8 x 3 cm (2nd row), 3 x 2 x 1 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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