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Hydropyrochlore

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Hydropyrochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Lueshe Mine, North Kivu, DR Congo
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm
Description

15 floater octahedral crystals of hydropyrochlore from Lueshe, the type locality, with dominant octahedron habit. It comes with a label from the Geologisch Instituut of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where the formula of an analysed sample is written. Ex Dr. Ernst Burke* collection, with a copy of his handwritten label. Dimensions are those of the bigger crystal.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

 

*Ernst Burke professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands). Former Head of the IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification.

Ernstburkeite is named after him.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hydropyrochlore

Formula: 
(H2O,□)2Nb2(O,OH)6(H2O)
Strunz: 
4.DH.15
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Lueshe Mine, Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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