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Thorianite

David Burgess Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Huddersfield Mine, Otter Lake, Outaouais, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.6 × 6.9 × 4.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a very large sample from this obscure locality from which specimens are very hard to come by. The sample hosts numerous sharp, lustrous black modified cubes of thorianite in acid etched orange calcite matrix with diopside and phlogopite. This was a closed locality to collecting and very few of these samples were recovered. See mindat photo of the sample from the Royal Ontario Museum collection. This sample is much larger and more rich! From the David Burgess collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Thorianite

Formula: 
ThO2
Strunz: 
4.DL.05
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Balangoda, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka

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