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Sample n° 2714

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
CURITE	Pb3+x[(UO2)4O4+x(OH)3-x]2•2H2O	oxides and hydroxides	-	major
KOLBECKITE	Sc(PO4)•2H2O	phosphates	-	major
KASOLITE	Pb(UO2)(SiO4)•H2O	nesosilicates	-	minor
METATORBERNITE	Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2•8H2O	phosphates	-	minor

Description

Description: sample with curite as orange to black crystals and as silky orange fibres, white-grey kolbeckite crystals, some kasolite bundles

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: Shinkolobwe

Specification

• Donors: Nève de Mévergnies
  Donation year: 1950
• Sampling year:
  Registration date:
• Quantity: 1
  Size: 5 x 4 cm

• Dimension code 1>2>3: 3
  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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