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Swamboite & Soddyite

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Swamboite & Soddyite

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Description
Locality: 
Swambo Hill, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm
Description

specimen with some yellow needles of the extremely rare swamboite on matrix from the type locality.

c. 2166

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Swamboite

Formula: 
UH6(UO2)6(SiO4)6·30H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.20
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Swambo Hill (Swambo Mine), Swambo, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Soddyite

Formula: 
(UO2)2SiO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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