Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Fourmarierite & Uranophane

Views:
Watches:
SMM742220

Fourmarierite & Uranophane

Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Beautiful specimen full in more areas of bright orange crystals of fourmarierite from its type locality. Together yellow tufts of uranophane make a nice effect of color contrasts.

Really a good sample and specimens from Shinkolobwe become increasingly rarer.

Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fourmarierite

Formula: 
Pb(UO2)4O3(OH)4·4H2O
Strunz: 
4.GB.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
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

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps