Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Uranophane & Stilbite

Views:
Watches:
BCK599915

Uranophane & Stilbite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Pacolet Quarry, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 2.4 × 1.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with many nice clusters of uranophane on granite matrix with stilbite and hexagonal prisms of calcite. A rare uranium bearing specimen from south carolina! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Uranophane

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)2[HSiO4]2·5H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Miedzianka (Kupferberg), Jelenia Góra District, Rudawy Janowickie Mts, Lower Silesia (Dolnośląskie), Poland

Stilbite

Synonym Of: 

Stilbite-Ca

Formula: 
NaCa4[Al9Si27O72]·nH2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Stilbite-Na

Formula: 
(Na,Ca,K)6-7[Al8Si28O72]·nH2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
White

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps