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Torbernite

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Torbernite

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.1 × 2.1 cm
Description

Old specimen of bright, bottle green tabular crystals of torbernite on matrix from Shinkolobwe. Far better and bigger torbernites have been found in Katanga in other mines, but these old torbernites from Shinkolobwe are a must in any collection, and they are not easy to obtain, if not from recycled collections. Ex. Eudore Toussaint specimen, who exchanged in Congo before 1960.

Eudore Toussaint was a Belgian Chemical Engineer in the D.R.Congo from 1948 to 1971.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

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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