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Curite Soddyite & Heterogenite

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Curite Soddyite & Heterogenite

Kay Robertson collection
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Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2 × 1.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a truly exceptional sample with rich vugs of perfect, sharply terminated curite prisms with blocky soddyite crystals, botryoidal black heterogenite and tabular metatorbernite plates. Mrs. Robertson paid $275 for this sample in 2003! A very rich and colorful sample from this famous locality. Comes with assortment of historic labels dating back to the 1950s. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Curite

Formula: 
Pb3(UO2)8O8(OH)6·3H2O
Strunz: 
4.GB.55
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Streak: 
Orange
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Soddyite

Formula: 
(UO2)2SiO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Heterogenite

Formula: 
CoO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FE.20
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Wolfgang Maaßen Mine field, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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