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Wölsendorfite & Becquerelite

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Wölsendorfite & Becquerelite

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.3 × 0.7 cm
Description

A beautiful specimen with bright dark yellow to orange well-formed and terminated becquerelite crystals and some small red wölsendorfite crystals on matrix associated with some tufts of acicular uranophane.
Some really good crystals of the rare lead-calcium-uranyl-hydroxide wölsendorfite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wölsendorfite

Formula: 
(Pb,Ca)U2O7·2H2O
Strunz: 
4.GB.30
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Wölsendorf Fluorite Mining District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

Becquerelite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)6O4(OH)6·8H2O
Strunz: 
4.GB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)
Cartils Minerals

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