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Triangulite

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Triangulite

Type Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Kobokobo Pegmatite, Mwenga, South Kivu, DR Congo
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 3.4 × 2 cm
Description

Triangulite is a very rare aluminium-uranyl-phosphate only found at three localities world-wide.
This very good sample from the Type Locality has a good coverage of bright yellow masses and tiny crystals of triangulite on matrix.
Ex Jean-Claude Leydet.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Triangulite

Formula: 
Al3(UO2)4(PO4)4(OH)5·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.45
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kobokobo pegmatite, Mwenga, Sud-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)
Cartils Minerals

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