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Sharpite

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Description
Locality: 
Le Brugeaud Mine, Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm
Description

Greenish yellow microcrystals of the very rare uranium mineral sharpite from a little known locality in France. 

Sharpite specimens outside Katanga area are extremely rare in the mineral market !

Only 5 localities known worldwide.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

No duplicates available

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sharpite

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)6(CO3)5(OH)4·6H2O
Strunz: 
5.EA.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Found as crusts of radiating fibres.
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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