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Rutherfordine On Joliotite

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Rutherfordine On Joliotite

20-04-04-mz8 SEM-EDS & XRD

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Description
Locality: 
Menzenschwand, St Blasien, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 3.2 × 3.1 cm
Description

SEM-EDS & XRD confirmed specimen no 20-04-04-mz8 hosting yellow joliotite coatings and tiny beige Raman confirmed rutherfordine. The specimen also hosts billietite and a small light greenish fragment of an unknown mineral. It might be the Ba analogue of fontanite with respect to the EDS and Raman analysis (carbonate).

Analysis of joliotite attached. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rutherfordine

Formula: 
(UO2)CO3
Strunz: 
5.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Lukwengule, Uluguru Mts (Uruguru Mts), Morogoro Region, Tanzania

Joliotite

Formula: 
(UO2)CO3·nH2O
Strunz: 
5.EB.15
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Krunkelbach Valley Uranium deposit, Menzenschwand, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany