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Zircon With Uranophane

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Zircon With Uranophane

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Description
Locality: 
Malpensata Pegmatite, Piona Peninsula, Colico, Lecco Province, Lombardy, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 4.2 × 2.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Weight: 
50.00gr
Description

Crude dark zircon crystals within pale pegmatite matrix, with surrounding crusty canary yellow uranophane.
Contrastful and nowadays rather hard to spot in situ. This is an oldtimer specimen, I dare say over 20 years old. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zircon

Formula: 
ZrSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White

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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