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Torbernite

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Torbernite

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Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.5 × 1 cm
Description

An excellent miniature full of beautiful, glassy, emerald-green square, tabular torbernite crystals that intersect with each other richly totally covering the matrix. It is embellished with small, light green sparkling clusters of second generation crystals deposited here and there on top of the larger crystals. Beautiful sample!!

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Mineral Data
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Torbernite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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