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Becquerelite

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 2.7 × 3.8 cm
Description

A vug of 16mm hosts superb vibrant yellow becquerelite crystals.

There other unidentified species as well (one is most possibly uranophane), including some black botryoids on the becquerelite needles.

It comes with a card from the collection of Siegfried Bach from Berlin.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Becquerelite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)6O4(OH)6·8H2O
Strunz: 
4.GB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)
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