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Schoepite

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Schoepite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Roffin Mine, Lachaux, Puy-Guillaume, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.5 × 1.2 × 0.9 cm
Description

Shiny yellow schoepite balls on black matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Schoepite

Formula: 
(UO2)8O2(OH)12·12H2O
Strunz: 
4.GA.05
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)