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Marthozite

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Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 2.1 cm
Description

First-class specimen with numerous yellowish-green marthozite crystals with ideally formed habitus. The crystals are in a vug of malachite, associated with minor yellow guilleminite. The marthozite crystal-group measures nearly half a centimetre! Rarely offered in this quality.

NOTE: This specimen was published on mindat. You can find the third taken picture there.

Type locality specimen. Marthozite is only known from three 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

Marthozite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)3(SeO3)2(OH)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
4.JJ.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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