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Spriggite & Billietite

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Spriggite & Billietite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Painter #2 Workings, Mount Painter, Arkaroola Region, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1 × 1.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with several small patches and rough crystals of bright orange, extremely rare spriggite in matrix with some minor crystals of billietite from the type locality. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Spriggite

Formula: 
Pb3(UO2)6O8(OH)2·3H2O
Strunz: 
4.GC.15
Hardness: 
4.0 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Mount Painter No. 2 workings, Mt Painter area, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Station), North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia

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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