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Dewindtite

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Dewindtite

Ex. VANDENBERGHE Collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.7 × 1.6 cm
Description

Excellent specimen with yellow lath crystals of dewindtite high in contrast to green (meta-) torbernite crystals. The dewindtite show a very clear transparency. In some areas, the dewindtites are grown on the crystal edges of the torbernites. Very attractive association of dewindtite and (meta-) torbernite.

Type locality specimen for dewindtite.

From the collection of Luc VANDENBERGHE, longtime mindat member and famous Belgian u-mineral collector. Specimen of a very well kept collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Dewindtite

Formula: 
H2Pb3(UO2)2(PO4)4O4·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.EC.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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