page_title: Ambrosia Lake
hierarchical_section_title: Ambrosia Lake
caption_attribution_description: English: Uranophane - alpha Locality: Ambrosia Lake area, Grants District, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA (Locality at mindat.org) Size: cabinet, 11.2 x 9.5 x 8.1 cm Uranophane This remarkable specimen iis the richest, most colorful large example of this classic material I have yet seen. I am told they were found in the 1950s, primarily. This comes out of a small midwestern museum collection, where it has been sheltered all these years, and the pockets of crystals are in incredible condition. I have never seen the mineral in such thick, velvety layers of long crystals before. I believe it to be quite significant , thus, both for the locality AND for the species Deutsch: Uranophan Fundort: Ambrosia Lake area, Grants District, McKinley County, New Mexico, Vereinigte Staaten (Fundort bei mindat.org) Größe: 11.2 x 9.5 x 8.1 cm
context_page_description: Ambrosia Lake is a uranium mining district in McKinley and Cibola counties in New Mexico north of Grants that was heavily mined for uranium starting in the 1950s. It is in an anticlinal dome.
context_section_description: Ambrosia Lake is a uranium mining district in McKinley and Cibola counties in New Mexico north of Grants that was heavily mined for uranium starting in the 1950s. It is in an anticlinal dome.
caption: Uranophane specimen from Ambrosia Lake
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