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Uranophane

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Uranophane

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Poison Canyon, McKinley County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5 × 2.6 cm
Description

A beautiful small cabinet specimen of uranophane from the best U.S. locality for the mineral, which displays well both in the cabinet and under magnification.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

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