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Rutherfordine

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Rutherfordine

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Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.4 × 4.3 × 2.7 cm
Description

Brown rutherfordine with soddyite in two different crystal habits: Acicular yellow and typical trapezoid crystals. SEM-EDS & SXRD microdiffraction confirmed material no MA1523. 

Comes with a colour printed analysis. 

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