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Uranospinite & Uraninite

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Uranospinite & Uraninite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Uranium Mine #16, Háje, Příbram, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.3 × 6.5 × 3.8 cm
Description

Big piece of uranium minerals - yellow uranospinite crystallized masses, lack uraninite variety pitchblende and unidentified greenish mineral altering pitchblende. Uranospinite shows strong fluorescence shown under SW

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Uranospinite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)(AsO4)2·10H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Walpurgis Flacher vein, Weißer Hirsch Mine (Shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Uraninite

Formula: 
UO2
Strunz: 
4.DL.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic