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Sharpite

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm
Description

Fine specimen with an olive-green crystal aggregate on uraninite matrix.

Specimen from type locality. Sharpite is only known from five localities worldwide. Very rare.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sharpite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)6(CO3)5(OH)4·6H2O
Strunz: 
5.EA.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Found as crusts of radiating fibres.
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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