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Torbernite

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Torbernite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Wheal Bassett, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3 × 4.5 × 3 cm
Description

Blocky crystals of torbernite to 1 mm on quartz matrix.

Collected off the dumps by Colin Chambers in 1973.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Torbernite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany