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Uranocircite

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Uranocircite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Assunção Mine, Aldeia Nova, Sátão, Viseu District, Portugal
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.5 × 10 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Description

This is a very good and showy uranocircite specimen from the famous pegmatite in Portugal.

Yellowgreen uranocircite crystals up to 5 mm sitting all over the crystallized quartz matrix.

Collected 2004

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Uranocircite

Formula: 
Ba(UO2)2(PO4)2·10H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Streuberg Quarry, Bergen, Bergen U deposit, Zobes-Bergen District, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany