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Metatorbernite

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Metatorbernite

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Description
Locality: 
Chalk Mountain Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.8 × 5.5 × 1.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with hundreds and hundreds of beautiful metatorbernite crystals in clusters on pegmatite matrix up to about 3.5mm. This is simply a fantastic sample from this mine, and was collected in the 1970s. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metatorbernite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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