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Kivuite Phuralumite & Furongite

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Kivuite Phuralumite & Furongite

rare minerals!
Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Kobokobo Pegmatite, Mwenga, South Kivu, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.5 × 1 × 0.35 cm
Description

Rich piece with some very rare u-minerals. Canary yellow phuralumite assocaited with pale greenish-yellow platty aggregates of the u-phosphate furongite and yellowish masses of now discredited kivuite on pitch-black uraninite.

 

 

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Phuralumite

Formula: 
Al2(UO2)3(PO4)3(OH)2·13H2O
Strunz: 
8.EC.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kobokobo pegmatite, Mwenga, Sud-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Furongite

Formula: 
Al13(UO2)7(PO4)13(OH)14·58H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.50
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Unnamed U deposit (1), Hunan Province, China

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