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The most prudent course of action would be to treat all unanalyed samples of these minerals as members of the blodite group, and this should be added to the mineral list for this locality.

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Original EntryThe most prudent course of action would be to treat all unanalyed samples of these minerals as members of the blodite group, and this should be added to the mineral list for this locality.
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Full ReferenceThe most prudent course of action would be to treat all unanalyed samples of these minerals as members of the blodite group, and this should be added to the mineral list for this locality.
Plain TextThe most prudent course of action would be to treat all unanalyed samples of these minerals as members of the blodite group, and this should be added to the mineral list for this locality.

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Blue Lizard Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USAⓘ Blödite Group

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At the very least, "pumpellyite group" should be added to the mineral list for this locality.
Although arguably the most prudent identification in most cases, Zippeite Group is currently not included on the Blue Lizard Mine mineral list, but should be added.
Given these ambiguities in identification, please add "Strengite-Variscite Series" to the mineral list for this mine, since most photos purported to be either of these two minerals are more properly assigned to this level of determination, in the absence of analytical data.
Because none of the photos of suiskite-(Mg) from this locality cite any analytical work whatsoever as the basis for their determinations, it would seem that all should be re-labelled as "pumpellyite group" as per Mazdab's informed suggestion.
Of the 5 photos of members of the blodite group from the Blue Lizard Mine posted on Mindat, only one makes reference to an EDX result to verify the identification. As such, all the other identifications in these photos must be considered nothing more than guesses.
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Epidote, epidote-(Sr) and hancockite have all been reported from here. So clearly "epidote group" is valid. I added this to the list because for some specimens, the dominant specis can not be determined without WDS.
"Technically, all the photos we already have of supposed 'shuiskite-(Mg)' from Saranovskii that don't at the very minimum include a quantitative chemical analysis showing high Cr should be reclassified as "pumpellyite group". I would bet most of these photos show only Cr-enriched pumpellyite-(Mg), and any possible shuiskite-(Mg) present would most likely be patchy areas within zoned crystals, which would be visually indistinguishable from the likely much more abundant Cr-enriched pumpellyite-(Mg) portions."
Special thanks must be given to Dr. Jochen schluter, Curator of Hamburg Mineral Museum in Germany, who has analysed and properly identified the presence of Creaseyite in this locality
Special thanks must be given to Dr. Jochen Schluter, Curator of Hamburg mineralogical Museum (Germany), for the analysis done on material from this locality.
Field identification - I hiked this location & identified these minerals & mineral varieties. I will add some photos once these minerals are added,
 
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