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Meta-ankoleite

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Meta-ankoleite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Tirpersdorf, Oelsnitz, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.5 × 0.3 cm
Description

Small platy fragments of metaankoleite a very rare uranium phosphate.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Meta-ankoleite

Formula: 
K2(UO2)2(PO4)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.15
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Colour: 
yellow
Type Locality: 
Mungenyi pegmatite, Ankole pegmatite field, Mbarara District, Uganda