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Meta-autunite

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Meta-autunite

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Description
Locality: 
Streuberg Quarry, Bergen, Zobes-Bergen, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.4 × 1 cm
Description

Canary yellow meta-autunite rosettes crystals with the lime green coloured cores of autunite. These are possibly paramorphoses, a replacement of meta-autunite after autunite rosettes by dehydration. The druse is almost a floater, that can be displayed all around.

Intense green fluorescence under UV illumination.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Meta-autunite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2· 6-8H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.10
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Daybreak Mine (Dahl lease; Huffman lease), Mount Kit Carson, Spokane Co., Washington, USA

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