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Sklodowskite & Gypsum

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Sklodowskite & Gypsum

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Description
Locality: 
Plaka Mines, Plaka, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.5 × 1.4 cm
Description

Sklodowskite is a rare, uranium mineral and it has been found in Greece only once, a couple years ago. There is an extensive article in the German Lapis Magazine about the find. This piece comes from this unique find and is a representative example with yellow radiating aggregates of hair-like crystals of sklodowskite on gypsum!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sklodowskite

Formula: 
Mg(UO2)2[HSiO4]2·5H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.10
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Gypsum

Formula: 
CaSO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.CD.40
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
White.

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