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Torbernite

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Torbernite

ex collection J. Höppner, ex T. Neumann, Weiden
Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Höhenstein Shaft, Poppenreuth bei Tirschenreuth, Mähring, Tirschenreuth District, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.3 × 4.8 × 1.7 cm
Description

Very beautiful dark emerald-green torbernite crystals, nicely contrastet on pale brown matrix. Very rich, rather big specimen with hundreds of crystals. Much better color in nature.

Comes with the original Höppner label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Torbernite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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