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Kasolite

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Kasolite

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

A very rich and nice sample of orange sharp kasolite crystals from the type-locality Shinkolobwe, it's less beautiful but also really less widespread than that of Musonoi. Shinkolobwe specimens are always less easy to find nowadays. Very good.

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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)

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