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Sengierite

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Sengierite

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Description
Locality: 
Luiswishi Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2.87 × 2.3 cm
Description

Intense green tabular sengierite on matrix in vugs and as a flat coverage. Type locality.

References:

 

Am Min (1949) 34 (1-2), 109-120; Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 1048.
Mineral Data
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Sengierite

Formula: 
Cu2(UO2)2(VO4)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
4.HB.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Luiswishi Mine, Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)