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Sengierite & Uraninite

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Sengierite & Uraninite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Luiswishi Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.9 × 4.8 × 2.9 cm
Description

Deep green platy sengierite crystals scattered over the matrix and most remarkably filling a large fracture surface with a couple of another unidentified species. 

Formations of dendritic uraninite are in all sides.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sengierite

Formula: 
Cu2(UO2)2(VO4)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
4.HB.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Luiswishi Mine, Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Uraninite

Formula: 
UO2
Strunz: 
4.DL.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
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