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Becquerelite

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Becquerelite

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Locality: 
Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 0.8 × 0.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with some exceptional groups of becquerelite crystals on matrix with mixite. On closer inspection the becquerelite crystals are trilling twins.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Becquerelite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)6O4(OH)6·8H2O
Strunz: 
4.GB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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