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Name: Montroseite RRUFF ID: R060576 Ideal Chemistry: (V3+,Fe2+,V4+)O(OH) Locality: Number Mesa 5 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah, USA Source: Michael Scott S100805 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Steel gray, submetallic, massive Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
Mineral Group: [ Diaspore (11) ] |
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REFERENCES for Montroseite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] |
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Weeks A D, Cisney E A, Sherwood A M (1951) Hummerite and montroseite, two vanadium minerals from Montrose County, Colorado. Abstracts of papers presented at the thirty-first annual meeting of the Mineralogical Society of America at Washington, D.C., American Mineralogist, 36, 310-328 [view file] |
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Evans H T, Block S (1953) The crystal structure of montroseite, a vanadium member of the diaspore group, American Mineralogist, 38, 1242-1250 [view file] |
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Weeks A D, Cisney E A, Sherwood A M (1953) Montroseite, a new vanadium oxide from the Colorado plateaus, American Mineralogist, 38, 1235-1241 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1954) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 39, 402-408 [view file] |
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Evans H T, Mrose M E (1955) A crystal study of montroseite and paramontroseite, American Mineralogist, 40, 861-875 [view file] |
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Armbruster T, Lazic B, Reznitsky L Z, Sklyarov E V (2013) Kyzylkumite, Ti2V3+O5(OH): new structure type, modularity and revised formula, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 33-44 [view file] |
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