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Vanuralite & Mounanaite

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Vanuralite & Mounanaite

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Description
Locality: 
Mounana Mine, Franceville, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.1 × 0.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with some very nice crystals of vanuralite with a coating of tiny brown mounanaite crystals. Type locality for both species.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vanuralite

Formula: 
Al(UO2)2(VO4)2(OH)·11H2O
Strunz: 
4.HB.20
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Mounana Mine (Mouana Mine), Franceville, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon

Mounanaite

Formula: 
PbFe3+2(VO4)2(OH,F)2
Strunz: 
8.CG.15
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Mounana Mine (Mouana Mine), Franceville, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon

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