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Shabaite-(Nd) With Kamotoite-(Y)

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Shabaite-(Nd) With Kamotoite-(Y)

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Description
Locality: 
Kamoto East Open Cut, Kamoto, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm
Description

Excellent specimen and rich decorated with pale yellow-grey fine-tabular shabaite-Nd aggregates. Associated with intense yellow kamotoite-(Y) crystals and light yellow acicular uranophane.

Specimen from type locality for shabaite-(Nd) and kamotoite-(Y). Shabaite-(Nd) is only known from ONE locality worldwide. Absolutely rare and of high quality.

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

Mineral Data
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Shabaite-(Nd)

Formula: 
Ca(Nd,Sm,Y)2(UO2)(CO3)4(OH)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
5.EE.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Kamoto East Open cut, Kamoto, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Kamotoite-(Y)

Formula: 
Y2(UO2)4(CO3)3O4·14H2O
Strunz: 
5.EA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kamoto East Open cut, Kamoto, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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