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Sample n° 11419

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
MOLYBDENITE	MoS2	sulfides and sulfosalts	-	major
PENROSEITE	(Ni,Co,Cu)Se2	sulfides and sulfosalts	-	major
SALEEITE	Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2•10H2O	phosphates	-	major
ANHYDRITE	Ca(SO4)	sulfates	-	minor
BARYTE	Ba(SO4)	sulfates	-	minor
SIEGENITE	CoNi2S4	sulfides and sulfosalts	-	minor

Description

Description: sample with saleeite as yellow crystals with red coatings, band of mixed sulfides (penroseite, siegenite), blue fibrous anhydrite crystals, brown baryte crystals

Information: Deliens, M., 1975. Remplacement partiel du sélénium par le soufre dans la penroséite (Ni,Co,Cu)(Se,S)2 de Shinkolobwe (Zaïre). Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie 98, 347-350.

Origin

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

Specification

• Donors: Gecomin
  Donation year: 1967
• Sampling year:
  Registration date:
• Quantity: 1
  Size: 15 x 10 cm

• Dimension code 1>2>3: 1
  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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