radioactive mineral photos.. post them!!

Here is a carnotite from the Harvey Black Mine, Monument Valley, AZ.
Patrick
patrickehaynes@cox.net

Here's whats left of a killer large cabinet size Autunite specimen from the Day Break Mine, Spokane Washington I left out in the California sun to long. To say I was heartbroken seeing the specimen reduced to crumbs is an under statement.

Sure blame it on the sun! Maybe you can sell it as a 3-D puzzle? comes with glue. >:D<



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my word, Jay! The Spokane pieces are wonderful - you must be heartbroken! (Ignore Reiner - I'll give him a jab in the ribs later)

Maggie

Reiner, Thanks for the chuckle! To say I was crushed finding the specimen in a limp pile is an understatement !!! The evil deed happened a dozen or so years back and I still can't get myself to make and effort at recovering the thumbnail specimens that are left. I guess I kinda look at it as the Urn with Gramps it on the Mantle!

Cuprosklodowskite with Torbernite from Musonoi, DR Congo



Cuprosklodowskite from Musonoi, DR Congo



Sklodowskite and Cuprosklodowskite from Musonoi, DR Congo



Torbernite from Musonoi, DR Congo



Derriksite ( rare uranium selenite ) from Musonoi, DR Congo
sadly no crystals

Kasolite from Musonoi, DR Congo



Uraninite from Příbram, Czech Republic



Uranospinite with Uraninite from Příbram, Czech Republic



Boltwoodite from Namibia





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Guilleminite with Cuprosklodowskite from Musonoi, Katanga, DR Congo
67 gram
5,5 x 4,5 x 3,5 cm


Curite with Uraninite from Shinkolobwe, Katanga, DR Congo
136 gram
5,5 x 4 x 3,5 cm




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This 6 x 4 x 4 cm radioactive crystal assemblage of monazite-ce was found buried in the soil about 10 meters west of the Cactus Jack Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas in 2008. Of the hundreds of monazite specimens collected since the pegmatite was discovered in 2005, about 80% have been recovered from the soil where they ended up after being eroded from the pegmatite. Sensitive gamma scintillation counters can easily detect buried monazite specimens such as this one at depths of up to a meter. This specimen is currently in the collection of Ed Gage, of Bandera, Texas.

Frank

Maggie Wilson Wrote:
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> our bragging rock, collected July, 2010
>
> 12 cm Thorite from the Kemp Prospect, near
> Wilberforce, Ontario 1.8 kg - it's damaged, but
> it's big - the gray laths are uranothorite and the
> piece is liberally covered in pyroxene bits
>
> - we hear from Mark Stanley that he is storing
> someone's collection which apparently contains a
> LARGER similar piece - it may be two years before
> the owner returns to claim the material, so
> whether or not ours is the largest crystal on the
> planet remains to be seen.
>
>
>
>

euxenite
Alto do Giz,Rio Grande do Norte,Brazil
11 cm

haiweeite
Teofilo Otoni,Minas Gerais,Brazil
10 cm

A little uranophane in quartzite from the LaRue Prospect, Cochetopa District, Saguache County, Colorado. Length of central crystal-ball cluster: 3.0 mm.



Cheers!

Steve

And a pretty black mineral, a uraninite cube with minor octahedral faces, Cardiff Mine, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada. Main crystal is 1.0x0.9x0.8 cm.




Cheers!

Steve

Here is my favorite Autunite from the Daybreak Mine, Spokane, Washington. 6 x 6 cm. So far it has remained whole.

Saleeite.
Ranger Mine,
Northern Territory, Australia.
size (9.5 x 6.5cm

Ulrichite from Lake Boga, Australia

Ulrichite from Lake Boga, Australia

Self collected in Sardinia
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Remnant uraninite core with schoepite, becquerelite and ???, Lookout 22 prospect, Marshal Pass District, Gunnison County, Colorado. 3x2.5x2.5 cm. X2. Gift from R.M. Honea, 1975. When first discovered in the 1950s', this prospect produced some spectacularly rich, large masses of essentially pure uraninite and it's alterations.



Cheers!

Steve

Another Colorado specimen, euxenite from Chaffee County. Probably from the Trout Creek Pass occurrences. 8.5x4x4 cm. This is essentially pure euxenite with minor surface alteration on part. Gift from Don and Dee Belsher, 1976.



Cheers,

Steve