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Billietite Vauquelinite & Torbernite

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Billietite Vauquelinite & Torbernite

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Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

Exceptionally rich sample with many, honey yellow very sharp crystals of billietite and a lot of dark green/yellowish clusters of vaquelinite crystals together with beautiful glassy, bright green torbernite crystals.

Billietite is certainly not a very frequent species in Musonoi nor is vauquelinite and a sample so rich in beautiful groups of crystals of both the species is certainly a real rarity. The best and rich specimen of the two minerals I ever seen from this locality!

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Condition
Base: 
Sawn
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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)

Vauquelinite

Formula: 
Pb2Cu(CrO4)(PO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
7.FC.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Tsvetnoi Mine, Uspenskaya Mt, Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Torbernite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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