Cuprosklodowskite, Sklodowskite, Heterogenite: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo

Description

Species: Cuprosklodowskite, Sklodowskite, Heterogenite

Locality: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo

Dimensions: 4 cm x 3.5 cm x 2.5 cm

Beautiful, colorful, well-crystallized Musonoi mine specimen featuring a void lined with radiating, acicular, epitaxial, yellow-green cuprosklodowskite on yellow sklodowskite crystals with interstitial, dark heterogenite around their contacts with the altered, siliceous dolostone matrix. Eric Quinter specimen U/Th 0168, pictured on mindat.org. Rare!