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Rutherfordine

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Rutherfordine

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
El Sherana Mine, South Alligator River, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with two vugs hosting beautiful tabular, lustrous crystals of rutherfordine with minor metazeunerite in uraninite. Rare sample from this long closed U mine! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rutherfordine

Formula: 
(UO2)CO3
Strunz: 
5.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Lukwengule, Uluguru Mts (Uruguru Mts), Morogoro Region, Tanzania

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