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Gauthierite & Uranophane

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Gauthierite & Uranophane

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.9 × 0.4 cm
Description

A lot of well-formed orange tabular crystals on matrix, with lemon yellow sprays of acicular crystals.

Very nice.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gauthierite

Formula: 
KPb[(UO2)7O5(OH)7]·8H2O
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
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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