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Sharpite Wyartite Vandendriesscheite & Uranophane

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Sharpite Wyartite Vandendriesscheite & Uranophane

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.7 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Massive aggregate of pale yellow to beige sharpite with tiny fragments of blackish wyartite in a small fragment of vein with massive vandendriesscheite and crystals of uranophane. Sharpite was confirmed by powder X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sharpite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)6(CO3)5(OH)4·6H2O
Strunz: 
5.EA.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Found as crusts of radiating fibres.
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Wyartite

Formula: 
CaU5+(UO2)2(CO3)O4(OH)·7H2O
Strunz: 
5.EA.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Vandendriesscheite

Formula: 
PbU7O22·12H2O
Strunz: 
4.GB.40
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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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