Luiswishi Mine, Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Southern area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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Uranium deposit, worked from an open cast. Located 20 km N of Lumbumbashi.

Refs.:
- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 1048.
- Lapis (1992): 17(3), 13-40.
- Am Min (1949) 34 (1-2), 109-120
http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM34/AM34_109.pdf

Mineral List:

Billietite
Chrysocolla
Cornetite
Cuprosklodowskite
Curite
Kasolite

Libethenite
Malachite
Pseudomalachite
Sengierite (TL)
Sklodowskite
Soddyite

Torbernite
Uranophane
Vandenbrandeite
Volborthite

16 entries listed. 16 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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