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Saléeite Metatorbernite & Sklodowskite

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Saléeite Metatorbernite & Sklodowskite

Ex. Eric Quinter Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 5.1 × 2.1 cm
Weight: 
24.00gr
Description

Altered siliceous dolostone matrix with abundant yellow saléeite microcrystals, green metatorbernite crystals and acicular yellow-orange sklodowskite crystals in voids. Great example of one of the rarest uranium minerals (saleeite) for this locality (Musonoi mine). Rare!! From the noted collection of Eric Quinter (1947-2024), one of the best private collections of uranium minerals in the United States! 

Posted on Mindat, Harold Moritz's Photo Gallery (Coll. #U/Th 0843)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Saléeite

Formula: 
Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2·10H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Weißer Hirsch Mine (Shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Metatorbernite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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)

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