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Walpurgite

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Walpurgite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
St Georg Mine, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 5 × 2.5 cm
Description

A good specimen full of tiny bladed crystals of walpurgite and and a little bismite on matrix of typical gangue grey quartz.

This is a slightly radioactive mineral and human exposure should always be limited.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Walpurgite

Formula: 
(BiO)4(UO2)(AsO4)2·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.EA.05
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Walpurgis Flacher vein, Weißer Hirsch Mine (Shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110