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Ianthinite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.7 × 1 cm
Description

Excellent specimen richly covered of flat-lying black-purple rosette-like aggregates. The specimen hermetically sealed and there is no ianthinite transformed into yellow shoepite.

Specimen from type locality.

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

Ianthinite

Formula: 
U4+(UO2)5O7·10H2O
Strunz: 
4.GA.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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