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Fourmarierite

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Fourmarierite

Ex. VANDENBERGHE Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 0.5 × 0.6 cm
Description

Excellent specimen with lots of intensive orange fourmarierite crystals. The fourmarierite crystals are ideally formed and show the textbook habitus. The specimen is analysed by Dr. Herman Goethals (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences).

Specimen from type locality. Rarely offered in this quality.

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

Fourmarierite

Formula: 
Pb(UO2)4O3(OH)4·4H2O
Strunz: 
4.GB.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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