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Kamotoite-(Y) & Astrocyanite-(Ce)

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Kamotoite-(Y) & Astrocyanite-(Ce)

Bill Pinch collection
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Description
Locality: 
Kamoto East Open Cut, Kamoto, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 3.3 × 3.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large miniature sample with a fracture that is host to free-growing kamatoite-Y crystals on uranophane with some radial astrocyanite-Ce clusters in the kamotoite at the base of the sample. Rich sample from the Bill Pinch collection and comes with his label. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kamotoite-(Y)

Formula: 
Y2(UO2)4(CO3)3O4·14H2O
Strunz: 
5.EA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kamoto East Open cut, Kamoto, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Astrocyanite-(Ce)

Formula: 
Cu2(Ce,Nd,La)2(UO2)(CO3)5(OH)2·1.5H2O
Strunz: 
5.EF.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Kamoto East Open cut, Kamoto, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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