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Haiweeite & Uranophane

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Haiweeite & Uranophane

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Description
Locality: 
Perus, São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.9 × 2.8 × 2.1 cm
Description

beautiful specimen with some very good tufts of yellow needles of haiweeite with associate good yellow crystals of uranophane on matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Haiweeite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)2[Si5O12(OH)2]·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Unnamed U occurrence [1], Coso District (New Coso District), Coso Mts (Coso Range), Inyo Co., California, USA

Uranophane

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)2[HSiO4]2·5H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Miedzianka (Kupferberg), Jelenia Góra District, Rudawy Janowickie Mts, Lower Silesia (Dolnośląskie), Poland

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