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Phosphuranylite

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Phosphuranylite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Pedro Alvaro mine, Villares de Yeltes, Salamanca, Castile & León, Spain
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 1.4 cm
Description

Platey yellow micro crystals of phosphuranylite, a uranium phosphate, occurs as thin coatings on the matrix from this less well known locality.

Discovered in 1879, its name is a derivative of its composition

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Phosphuranylite

Formula: 
(H3O)3KCa(UO2)7(PO4)4O4·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.EC.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Buchanan Mine, Waterhole Mine, (Buchanan pegmatite), Mitchell Co., North Carolina, USA
Gondwana Minerals