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Zippeite

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Description
Locality: 
Apex Mine, Reese River, Lander County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with hundreds of small balls of zippeite made up of radiating crystals. EDS verified by Cureton Minerals. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zippeite

Formula: 
K3(UO2)4(SO4)2O3(OH)·3H2O
Group Parent: 
Zippeite Group
Strunz: 
7.EC.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Elias Mine, Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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