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Thorite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Ye-bauk-thar-yar, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay, Myanmar (former Burma)
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1 × 0.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.20cm
Description

Excellent single crystal of a well-formed thorite with clearly formed end faces. The crystal reaches a size of 2.2 centimetre. Rarely seen from that locality and in this huge crystal size of an ideally habitus.

From the collection of Luc VANDENBERGHE, longtime mindat member and famous Belgian u-mineral collector. Specimen of a very well kept collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Thorite

Formula: 
(Th,U)SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
The Thorite Hole, Løvøya (Løvø; Lövö; Lövöe), Langesundsfjorden, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway

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