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Ranunculite With Vandermeerscheite

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Ranunculite With Vandermeerscheite

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Description
Locality: 
Kobokobo Pegmatite, Mwenga, South Kivu, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm
Description

Excellent specimen with numerous yellow spheres of ranunculite in association with platy pale yellow-greenish vandermeerscheite crystals. Richly decorated specimen.

Type locality specimen for both minerals (ranunculite and vandermeerscheite). Ranunculite is only known from ONE locality worldwide. Very rare mineral.

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

Ranunculite

Formula: 
HAl(UO2)(PO4)(OH)3·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.40
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Kobokobo pegmatite, Mwenga, Sud-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Vandermeerscheite

Formula: 
K2[(UO2)2V2O8]·2H2O
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Colour: 
Orange-yellow
Type Locality: 
Schellkopf, Brenk, Niederzissen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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