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Sample n° 13395

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
VAUQUELINITE	CuPb2(CrO4)(PO4)(OH)	phosphates	-	major
CHALCOMENITE	Cu(Se4+O3)•2H2O	selenites and tellurites	-	minor
DIGENITE	Cu1,8S	sulfides and sulfosalts	-	minor
GUILLEMINITE	Ba(UO2)3(Se4+O3)2O2•3H2O	selenites and tellurites	-	minor
MALACHITE	Cu2(CO3)(OH)2	carbonates	-	minor
METATORBERNITE	Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2•8H2O	phosphates	-	minor
WULFENITE	PbMoO4	molybdates and tungstates	-	minor

Description

Description: sample with olive-coloured vauquelinite crystals, bright yellow wulfenite crystals, little metatorbernite and chalcomenite, traces of guilleminite

Information: Deliens, M., 1978. La chenevixite, la vauquelinite, la sterrettite et la boltwoodite, minéraux nouveaux pour les gisements de Shaba (Zaïre) et du Rwanda. Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique 101, 111-119.

Origin

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

Specification

• Donors: du Ry
  Donation year: 1977
• Sampling year:
  Registration date:
• Quantity: 1
  Size: 9 x 7 cm

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

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