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Cuprosklodowskite & Schoepite Psm Rutherfordine

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Cuprosklodowskite & Schoepite Psm 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: 
6.6 × 6 × 4.7 cm
Weight: 
212.00gr
Description

This is a very rich and heavy specimen of bright green cuprosklodowskite and yellow acicular sklodowskite crystals filling spheroidal cavities. Some smaller cavities are rich in fine thin cuprosklodowskite crystals that are coronated by dozens of radial clusters of straw-yellow rutherfordine that have been replaced (at least in part) by yellow lemon schoepite. Good representative specimen from this top locality.

Found before 1985. Ex Joseph Lhoest. We combine shipping!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprosklodowskite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2[HSiO4]2·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.10
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Kalongwe deposit, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Schoepite

Formula: 
(UO2)8O2(OH)12·12H2O
Strunz: 
4.GA.05
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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

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