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Cuprosklodowskite

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Cuprosklodowskite

David Burgess Collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 4.8 × 3.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a beautiful sample with very nice, free-standing needles of cuprosklodowskite in a large malachite vug on matrix. There are also small crystals of metatorbernite and other species in small vugs below the main vug. Very rich and aesthetic specimen! Relisted due to non-payment!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprosklodowskite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2[HSiO4]2·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.10
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Kalongwe deposit, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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