36703: (Magnesio)pascoite - $16 Packrat Mine, Beaver Mesa, Gateway Mining District, Mesa County, Colorado Small cabinet - 6.6 x 3.3 x 1.3 cm 28 grams Mildly radioactive Specimen status: Reserved Send an email with specimen number to order A dark orange crust strip across the
face of a dark, somewhat friable matrix (petrified wood?).
Previous labels indicate the presence of magnesiopascoite,
rossite, metarossite and gypsum. Magnesiopascoite and
pascoite are both orange and visually indistinguishable,
so in the absence of analytical data I will label this as
(magnesio)pascoite. Rossite, metarossite and gypsum are
not obviously present. The specimen is mildly radioactive,
but not due to any essential element in magnesiopascoite -
Ca
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