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Billietite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Les Bains, Saint-Georges-les-Bains, Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.5 × 1.1 cm
Description

A beautiful miniature size specimen of billietite showing brilliant yellow microcrystals sparkling across matrix.   Some of the billietite rests on a pale yellow acicular mineral, probably uranophane.   

Mineral Data
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Billietite

Formula: 
Ba(UO2)6O4(OH)6·4-8H2O
Strunz: 
4.GB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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