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Parsonsite

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Description
Locality: 
Pinhal do Souto Mine, Tragos, Mangualde, Viseu District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.6 × 1.6 cm
Description

Very nice parsonsite sample with several orange crystals associated to torbernite and possible plumbogummite (tinny orange spheres).

Collected: 
2012
Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Parsonsite

Formula: 
Pb2(UO2)(PO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.EA.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)