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Torbernite

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Torbernite

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Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.1 × 0.3 cm
Description

Bright bottle green tabular crystals of torbernite on a thin matrix crust.

Colourful specimen that was collected by Eudore Toussaint, a Belgian chemical engineer in the D.R.Congo from 1948 to 1971.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Torbernite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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