White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA (original) (raw)
Formula: Al2/3Fe3+4(SO4)6(OH)2 · 20H2O
Formula: KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Habit: Rhombohedra modified by basal forms
Colour: Pink to pale brown
Description: Occurs in quartz veins; granular masses and rhombohedra.
Formula: Al2(SiO4)O
Localities:
Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Taylor Andalusite deposit (Taylor deposit), White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Description: Crystals form columnar masses; prismatic crystals to 10 cm long.
Formula: Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Colour: White
Description: Occurs as small tabular crystals partly lining cavities in phosphatic rock.
Formula: Al2(PO4)(OH)3
Colour: Colourless
Description: Occurs as crystals to 0.75 inches (1.8 cm) or more; commonly euhedral, transparent, and as fracture coatings and cavity fillings.
References:
Formula: BaSO4
Description: Large crystals are found in fractures but are rare.
References:
Formula: CaCO3
Formula: Al2O3
Colour: Deep blue
Description: Occurs as coarse nodular masses, as deep blue plates or irregular crystals in andalusite; rare but widespread.
Formula: CaAl3(PO4)(PO3OH)(OH)6
Formula: AlO(OH)
Colour: White to yellow-brown
Description: Occurs as compact masses with andalusite or in veins of pyrophyllite; blades and plates to 3 cm long.
Formula: (CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Formula: Ca5(PO4)3F
Colour: Light blue
Description: Coatings.
ⓘ Fluorapatite var. Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite
Formula: Ca5(PO4,CO3)3(F,O)
Colour: Light blue
Description: Coatings.
Formula: KCa4(Si8O20)(F,OH) · 8H2O
Formula: Ca5(SiO4)1.5(SO4)1.5F
Formula: CaF2
Formula: α-Fe3+O(OH)
Description: Many pseudomorphs after pyrite.
Formula: SrAl3(PO4)(PO3OH)(OH)6
Formula: FeAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O
Formula: Fe2O3
Localities:
Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Lower group of patented claims, Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Formula: Fe2O3
Description: Locally abundant.
Formula: Ca5(PO4)3(OH)
Formula: Fe2+TiO3
Description: Occurs sparingly.
Formula: KFe3+3(SO4)2(OH)6
Formula: KAl(SO4)2 · 11H2O
Formula: Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Formula: MgAl2(PO4)2(OH)2
Colour: Deep blue
Description: Abundant in veinlets cutting the ore body and wiedely disseminated in phosphate rock and vein quartz.
References:
Formula: ◻(Mg2Al)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Localities:
Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Key & Sanger Pyrophyllite deposit (Pyrophyllite Mine; Marguerite group; White Swan group), White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Inspiration prospect, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Description: Abundant. Forms veinlets with tourmaline and quartz.
Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Localities:
Key & Sanger Pyrophyllite deposit (Pyrophyllite Mine; Marguerite group; White Swan group), White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Inspiration prospect, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Description: Comprises almost all of a mica schist.
Formula: NaAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
ⓘ Natroalunite var. Strontium-bearing Natroalunite
Formula: (Na,Sr)Al3(SO4)2(OH)6
Formula: K(AlSi3O8)
Formula: FePO4 · 2H2O
Formula: MgAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O
Formula: FeS2
Description: Abundant.
Formula: Al2Si4O10(OH)2
Localities:
Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Colton Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Colour: White to colourless
Description: Occurs as sheaves of plates to 12 mm and small clusters of radiating masses and veinlets in andalusite.
Formula: SiO2
Localities:
Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Lower group of patented claims, Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Description: Forms veins hosting other minerals also occurs as crystals to 10 cm long lining walls of vugs and fractures.
Formula: TiO2
Localities:
Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Moreau claim, Mine Canyon, Champion Mine area, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Colour: Wine-red to red-brown
Description: Occurs as abundant minute specks in andalusite; crystals to 3 mm common.
Formula: NaFe2+3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Description: Occurs as veinlets of hair-like fibers.
Formula: Fe2+Al2(PO4)2(OH)2
Localities:
Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Lower group of patented claims, Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Description: Only material associated with svanbergite and schorl.
ⓘ 'Strengite-Variscite Series'
Formula: Fe3+PO4 . 2H2O - Al3+PO4 . 2H2O
Formula: S8
Description: Occasionally occurs as large balls filling cavities in andalusite ore.
Formula: SrAl3(PO4)(SO4)(OH)6
Habit: Rhombahedra
Colour: Pale yellow to orange, brown
Formula: Mg3Si4O10(OH)2
Formula: CaTi(SiO4)O
Description: Occurs as minute grains scattered through andalusite.
Formula: Al2(SiO4)(F,OH)2
Description: Occurs as small amounts of granular material in andalusite.
Formula: A D3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Formula: A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Formula: Al4(PO4)3(OH)3
Colour: Pale blue to blue-green
Description: Occurs as masses intergrown with augelite.
Description: Lines many cavities in the phosphatic rock.
Formula: CaAl3(PO4)(SO4)(OH)6
Type Locality:
Habit: Pseudocubic rhombohedra
Colour: Colourless to pale orange
Description: Occurs in veins; transparent to translucent. Some material is strontian.
References:
Formula: Y(PO4)
Formula: Zr(SiO4)
Description: Occurs in minor amounts.