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Thorogummite & Thorite

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Thorogummite & Thorite

Minresco
Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
CK Williams Quarry, Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.3 × 1.8 cm
Description

Orange thorogummite with black thorite and/or thorian uraninite.   The thorogummite is likely mixed with brown resinous wolsendorfite.   A rare locality specimen.   Ex. Minresco.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Thorite

Formula: 
(Th,U)SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
The Thorite Hole, Løvøya (Løvø; Lövö; Lövöe), Langesundsfjorden, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway

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