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Hydropyrochlore

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Hydropyrochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Lueshe Mine, North Kivu, DR Congo
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm
Description

One inter-grown group of hydropyrochlore crystals and some isolated crystals, from the Lueshe Mine the Type Locality for the species. The former species from the Lueshe carbonatite was named "kalipyrochlore" (described in 1965, named in 1977), but it was renamed as hydropyrochlore by new nomenclature (2010, 2013).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hydropyrochlore

Formula: 
(H2O,□)2Nb2(O,OH)6(H2O)
Strunz: 
4.DH.15
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Lueshe Mine, Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)