Lasalite, Na2Mg2 [V10O28] -20H2O, a new decavanadate mineral species from the Vanadium Queen mine, La Sal District, Utah: Description, atomic arrangement, and relationship to the pascoite group of minerals

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1365-1372

  Hughes, John M ^a   Wise, William S ^b   Gunter, Mickey E ^c   Morton, John P ^d   Rakovan, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Decavanadate; La Sal District; Lasalite; Pascoite group; Utah; Vanadium; Vanadium Queen mine

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; CALCITE; CALCIUM; CARBONATE MINERALS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COORDINATION REACTIONS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; DRYING; ELECTRON BEAMS; HYDRATES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; LANTHANUM; LIGHT; METAL REFINING; MINERALOGY; MINES; MINING; OXYGEN; REFRACTION; SANDSTONE; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SODIUM; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSITION METALS; VANADIUM ALLOYS; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

DECAVANADATE; LA SAL DISTRICT; LASALITE; PASCOITE GROUP; UTAH; VANADIUM; VANADIUM QUEEN MINE;

MINERALS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LASALITE; MOHS SCALE; NEW MINERAL; OXIDATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SANDSTONE; VANADIUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

LA SAL MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 59649104691     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3749/canmin.46.5.1365     Document Type: Article

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