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Meta-ankoleite

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Meta-ankoleite

Ex. VANDENBERGHE Collection
Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Tirpersdorf, Oelsnitz, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Fine and richly decorated specimen with bladed pale green-yellow meta-ankoleite crystals. Richly decorated specimen. The uncommen greenish colour is typical for meta-ankoleite from Tirpersdorf.

Meta-ankoleite is only known from a few localites worldwide.

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

Meta-ankoleite

Formula: 
K2(UO2)2(PO4)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.15
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Colour: 
yellow
Type Locality: 
Mungenyi pegmatite, Ankole pegmatite field, Mbarara District, Uganda

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