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Sample n° 11888

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
MUNDITE	Al(UO2)3(PO4)2(OH)3•5,5H2O	phosphates	-	major
UPALITE	Al(UO2)3(PO4)2O(OH)•7H2O	phosphates	-	major
COLUMBITE	(Fe,Mg,Mn)Nb2O6	oxides and hydroxides	-	minor
META-AUTUNITE	Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2•2-6H2O	phosphates	-	minor
RANUNCULITE	Al(UO2)(PO3OH)(OH)3•4H2O	phosphates	-	minor
URANINITE	UO2	oxides and hydroxides	-	minor
ZIRCON	ZrSiO4	nesosilicates	-	minor

Description

Description: sample with golden-yellow elongated mundite crystals, felty fine-acicular yellow upalite, ranunculite as bright golden-yellow small crystals and as crust of yellow-orange crystals, fluorescent white meta-autunite crusts, metamict zircon

Information: holotype of mundite (IMA Catalogue of Type Mineral Specimens) // cotype of upalite (Deliens & Piret, 1979) (holotype - n° 5951, n° 13457) // Deliens, M. & Piret, P., 1981. Les phosphates d'uranyle et d'aluminium de Kobokobo. V. La mundite, nouveau minéral. Bulletin de Minéralogie 104, 669-701. // Deliens, M. & Piret, P., 1979. Les phosphates d'uranyle et d'aluminium de Kobokobo. II. La phuralumite Al2(UO2)3(PO4)2(OH)2(OH)6.10H2O et l'upalite Al(UO2)3(PO4)2(OH)2(OH)3.6H2O, nouveau minéraux. Bulletin de Minéralogie 102, 333-337.

Origin

• Country: Congo (RDC)
• Region: Kivu
• Locality: Mwenga, Kobokobo

Specification

• Donors: Lhoest
  Donation year: 1969
• Sampling year:
  Registration date:
• Quantity: 1
  Size: 9 x 4 cm

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

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