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Furongite

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Furongite

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Description
Locality: 
Kobokobo Pegmatite, Mwenga, South Kivu, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 0.9 × 0.8 cm
Description

Yellow furongite crystals associated with neon coloured moreauite, mundite and phuralumite and minor powdery yellow triangulite. 

SEM-EDS & SXRD confirmed no 1479. 

Comes with a colour printed analysis. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Furongite

Formula: 
Al13(UO2)7(PO4)13(OH)14·58H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.50
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Unnamed U deposit (1), Hunan Province, China