Description
Species: Sklodowskite, Heterogenite
Locality: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
Dimensions: 5.5 cm x 3 cm x 2.5 cm
Beautiful and classic Musonoi mine specimen featuring a pocket lined with radiating, acicular, yellow sklodowskite crystals with interstitial, dark heterogenite around their contacts with the altered, siliceous dolostone matrix. Eric Quinter specimen U/Th 0310, pictured on mindat.org. Rare!