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Ronneburgite & Hummerite

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Ronneburgite & Hummerite

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Description
Locality: 
Lichtenberg Absetzer Dump, Ronneburg Uranium Deposit, Gera, Thuringia, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2.3 × 1.3 cm
Description

This is probably the rarest species of this auction. This specimen has lots of lustrous tiny red crystals of the very rare potassium-manganese-vanadate ronneburgite on matrix. Ronneburgite is only found at one locality worldwide, the Lichtenberger Absetzer Mine dump, and there was found only a small amount of it . This dump together with all other dumps, openpits and mines at the Ronneburg Uranium Deposit have been recultivated totally in recent years.
The ronneburgite is associated with a rich coverage of yellow hummerite crystals, also a rare vanadate.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ronneburgite

Formula: 
K2MnV4O12
Strunz: 
8.AC.75
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Lichtenberg Absetzer Mine (dump), Ronneburg U deposit, Gera, Thuringia, Germany

Hummerite

Formula: 
K2Mg2(V10O28)·16H2O
Strunz: 
4.HC.10
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Hummer Mine, Jo Dandy Mine (Paradox D; Hummer; C; Blackburn; Yellow Bird No. 1; Oversight; Broker), Paradox Valley, Uravan District, Montrose Co., Colorado, USA
Cartils Minerals

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