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Metastudtite & Phosphuranylite

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Metastudtite & Phosphuranylite

EDS & SCXRD confirmed
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Description
Locality: 
Fuente Obejuna, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4.3 × 3 cm
Description

Colourless, pale yellow silky metastudtite associated with orange phosphuranylite on feldspar matrix. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metastudtite

Formula: 
UO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
4.GA.15
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Metastudtite & Phosphuranylite