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Kasolite & Uranophane

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Kasolite & Uranophane

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Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
0.5 × 0.5 × 3 cm
Description

Five small specimens of dark-yellow crystals of kasolite. The smaller is cm 0.3x0.2x0.2, bigger, cm 0.5x0.3x0.9, other 0.3x0.3x0.4, - 0.5x0.5x0.3, - 0.6x0.4x0.3.

 

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kasolite

Formula: 
Pb(UO2)[SiO4]·H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.15
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Uranophane

Formula: 
Ca(UO2)2[HSiO4]2·5H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Miedzianka (Kupferberg), Jelenia Góra District, Rudawy Janowickie Mts, Lower Silesia (Dolnośląskie), Poland

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