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Torbernite

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Torbernite

Ex J & S Mommers Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Painter, Arkaroola Region, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1.4 × 1.3 cm
Description

A superb thumbnail torbernite from the Mount Painter Uranium deposits. Sharp undamaged neon green torbernite blades in an aesthetic cluster with a secondary iron stained coating over part of the specimen. This was closed in the  1970's and is probably the best of its type I have had the joy of owning

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
Earthstones Australia

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