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Sample n° 2745

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
LEPERSONNITE-(Gd)	CaGd2(UO2)24(CO3)8Si4O28•60H2O	carbonates	-	major
RUTHERFORDINE	(UO2)(CO3)	carbonates	-	major
SKLODOWSKITE	Mg(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2•6H2O	nesosilicates	-	major
BECQUERELITE	Ca(UO2)6O4(OH)6•8H2O	oxides and hydroxides	-	minor
CURITE	Pb3+x[(UO2)4O4+x(OH)3-x]2•2H2O	oxides and hydroxides	-	minor

Description

Description: sample with sklodowskite as fine white needles (partly as rosettes) and yellow laths, rutherfordine as grey needles (on becquerelite) and black crystals, yellow lepersonnite rosettes, amber-coloured becquerelite crystals, massive curite

Information: Protas, J., 1959. Contribution à l'étude des oxydes d'uranium hydratés. Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie 82, 239-272.

Origin

• Country: Congo (RDC)
• Region: Katanga
• Locality: Shinkolobwe

Specification

• Donors: Nève de Mévergnies
  Donation year: 1950
• Sampling year:
  Registration date:
• Quantity: 1
  Size: 4 x 3 cm

• Dimension code 1>2>3: 3
  Quality code 1>2>3: 1
• Holotype: no
  Paratype: no
  Radioactive: yes
• Thin section: yes
  Chemical analysis: no
  X-Ray spectra: yes

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