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Boltwoodite & Uraninite

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Boltwoodite & Uraninite

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Description
Locality: 
I Mondei, Montescheno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.9 × 0.3 cm
Description

Hairy, amoeba looking yellow boltwoodite crystals in muscovite with a black single uraninite crystal. There are several pleochroic halos in the specimen.
 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Boltwoodite

Formula: 
(K,Na)(UO2)[HSiO4]·0.5H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Pick's Delta Mine (Delta Mine; Pick's Mine), Delta, San Rafael District (San Rafael Swell), Emery Co., Utah, USA...

Uraninite

Formula: 
UO2
Strunz: 
4.DL.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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