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Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Description

Beautiful and rare specimen from the now defunct Shinkolobwe mine, the most famous uranium locality in the world.
Intertwined clusters of beautiful bright orange crystals, fill the vugs in some areas of the matrix, which is composed of orange masses of curite, greenish torbernite and a few non-remarkable kasolite. Excellent!!!

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Curite

Formula: 
Pb3(UO2)8O8(OH)6·3H2O
Strunz: 
4.GB.55
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Streak: 
Orange
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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