Yanomamite
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Yanomamite
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- Chip < 1cm
- Formula
- InAsO4·2H2O (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Mangabeira Tin deposit, Monte Alegre de Goiás, Goiás, Brazil
- Tagged
- arsenate
A small specimen but with rich coverage of this light blue indium arsenate. There are several tiny rosette crystals. This is the type and only locality. Yanomamite represents the only indium arsentate and is one of twelve know minerals containing essential indium. Jeepers!
Type Locality
Yanomamite
- Formula
- InAsO4·2H2O
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Cleavage
- Indistinct, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- blue green, light green, light yellow green
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
- Hardness
- 5.5-6
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
- Special Info
- Type Locality
- Mineralpedia
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- On Dakota Matrix
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- On Dakota Matrix
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