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Fontanite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Rabejac Est, Le Puech, Hérault, Occitanie, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm
Description

First-class specimen with numerous strong yellow, lath-shaped, partly ideally formed fontanite crystals. Richly decorated specimen. Very rare mineral.

Type locality specimen. Fontanite is only known from two localities worldwide.

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

Fontanite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)3(CO3)4·3H2O
Strunz: 
5.EC.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Rabejac, Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

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