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Uranopilite from
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Uranopilite
Formula:(UO2)6(SO4)O2(OH)6 · 14H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Uraninite1 photo of Uranopilite associated with Uraninite at this locality.
Vaesite1 photo of Uranopilite associated with Vaesite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Uranopilite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:363049
Long-form Identifier:1:3:363049:5
GUID (UUID V4):aacb6c8e-3dac-425a-950c-eff9770fc18c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT LAUF, PH.D. ._._...OUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Robert Laut holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering...information contact the publisher: Copyright © 2008 by Dr. Robert Laut, Ph.D. Library of Congress Control Number:...............................................36 Congo .. ................. .............................minerals is broad and deep; it covers a lot of territory and many years of scientific studies as well as...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was
Book
MINERAUX D'URANIUM I t DU HA UT KATANGA iI •! "LES AMIS DU MUSEE ROYAL DU CONGO BELGE", TERVUREN (Belgique)...Notices par C. GUILLEMIN "LES AMIS DU MUSEE ROYAL DU CONGO BELGE", TERVUREN (Belg ique) QUELQUES REMARQUES...SECONDAIRES D'URANIUM DU HAUT KATANGA par J. F. V AE S E differents points du Haut Katanga ont ete rencontres...mineraux d'uraoium mais c'est le gisement de Shinkolobwe (anciennement denomme Kasolo) qui en a livre...consignees ci-dessous. Le mineral primaire d'uranium au Katanga est l'uraninite. Nulle part dans cette region on
Journal (issue)
mm, with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection,...ince the days o f Stanley and Livingstone, Shaba (Katanga) has been known as one o f the world’s great mineralized...mineralized areas. Locality names such as Musonoi and Shinkolobwe are today famous fo r some o f the finest and...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper, cadmium...province was changed from Katanga to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960
Report (issue)
9238(9) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shaba Province, Congo. 7.50 (10), 3.22 (9), 3.75 (8), 3.56 (8), 2.58 (7)...06 Total 99.51 [100.0] 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo. (2) Congo; by electron microprobe, average of...masuyite, kasolite (Shinkolobwe, Congo); johannite, uranopilite, zippeite (Happy Jack mine, Utah, USA). Distribution:...Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At Schlema-Harlenstein...From Mitterberg, Salzburg, Austria. In the Geevor mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England. From the Rabéjac
Book
. ... .. ... .. .. ................ .. .... . Congo ..................................................equipment, 1nineralogical studies ofuranium thankful that Dr. Lauf has been able to ded icate a huge and thorium...che1nical con1plexity, physical beauty as captured in Dr. oxyanions to form di verse structures and compositions...vast and deep; it PHOTO CREDITS covers a lot of territory (and languages) and many years of Maps were prepared...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical
Report (volume)
--------·------- _-·-. __ ..• __ .. __ . ___ __ ___ ~eta-uranopilite .•• -------------- --·----·. _____ . _________...(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony...of the rich uranium ores of the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great Bear...the mineralogically diverse ores of the Belgian Congo the list of known species was doubled largely through...urani urn minerals first discovered in the Belgian Congo. The work of the American mineralogist C. Palache
Journal (issue)
tranche unidescenda11te sous dalle de béton à la mine de Margnac (Haute-Vienne) - Photo: COGEMA (GST)... Auj ourd ' hui , il ne reste plu qu' une seule mine d' ura nium en acti vité, à Jouac dans le nord du...Victo r Lassall e décou vre la chalcolite dans la mine du Crôt Blanc près de Gru ry (Saône-etLoire). En...(Haute-Vienne). Pendant ce temps, la mine de radium de Shinkolobwe (Katanga) est réouverte pour l'uranium en...1956 et mis en exploitation en 1958. Au Niger, la mine d'Arlit est exploitée à partir de 1968. Des prospections
Report (issue)
78(2) c = 4.21(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 5.22 (100), 3.538 (80), 4.38 (50), 3.79...∼10. Total (2) 89.34 10.66 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; by electron microprobe, H2 O by TGA, considered...Association: Uraninite, uranophane, soddyite, uranopilite, fourmarierite, wölsendorfite, rutherfordine...kasolite. Distribution: Name: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). As a dehydration...Metastudtite, UO4 • 2H2 O, a new mineral from Shinkolobwe, Shaba, Zaire. Amer. Mineral., 68, 456–458. (2)
Report (issue)
Uranopilite (UO2 )6 (SO4 )(OH)10 • 12H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...France. In Wheal Owles, Wheal Edward, and the Geevor mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England. From Nowa Ruda, Lower...the Urgeiriça mine, Viseu district, Portugal. At Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province...Mounana uranium mine, Franceville, Gabon. From South Alligator Valley, Northern Territory, Australia. In...In Japan, in the Togo mine, Tottori Prefecture. In the USA, found at many localities in the Uravan district
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nZ:1.585, 2Y-65", r)2. Sal6eite from Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo, has 2V 0' to 10". Novacekite and sal6eite...(IX): SALEEITE AND NOVACEKITE 681 bwe, Belgian Congo, suggeststhat this particular material corresponds...of autunite. Two specimens of sal6eite from Shinkolobwe, one originally from the collection of A. Schoep...the structure of the fully-hydrated phase. The Shinkolobwe and Portuguese material has practically identical...orientation such as is shown by the original Shinkolobwe material. The optical properties of air dried
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metastudtite, UOa . 2H2O, a new mineral from Shinkolobwe,Shaba, Zaire Mtcuel Delrr,Ns Ddpartement de G4ologie...Belgium Abstract Metastudtite occurs at the Shinkolobwe uranium deposit in Shaba, Zaire.lt appearsas...(1947)reportedthe original studtitediscovered at Shinkolobwe (Shaba,Zaire) to be a hydrated uranium carbonate...sample which was different from the original Shinkolobwe material. we undertook the studv of 0003-004x/83/0304-u56$02...0003-004x/83/0304-u56$02. 00 456 about twenty samplesfrom Shinkolobwe regarded as studtites in several mineralogical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on fine prismatic needle-like studtite. Shinkolobwe mine, Congo, Africa. Field of view (FOV) 2 mm (photo...longprismatic crystals of rutherfordine. Shinkolobwe mine, Congo, Africa. FOV 2.5 mm (photo P. Škácha)....agrinierite with pale yellow compreignacite. Margnac mine, Compreignac, France. FOV 2.5 mm (photo P. Škácha)...paragenesis with uranyl sulfates (including uranopilite and zippeite-group minerals), silicates (cuprosklodowskite)...uraninitesulfidic mineralization in Jáchymov. At Shinkolobwe, soddyite was observed, e.g., in association
Report (volume)
_________________________________________________ Uranopilite ___________________________________________________...Schroeckingerite_ _____ ____ __ Umohoite _ ____________ Uranopilite _ _ _ _ __ ______ _ 3. 3. 4. 4. 9. 66 19 796...Gross (1956) on material from the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah. d(A) I 9...and Murata (1951) on material from the Hillside mine, Yavapai County, Ariz. d(A) I *(A) 13.0 9.51...and Murata (1951)*on material from the Hillside mine, Yavapai County, Ariz. Bayleyite dehydrates readily
Book
sulfates zippeite and possibly also uranopilite (1neta-uranopilite) exist in differently hydrated phases...Rutherfordine Rabbittite Bayleyite Schroeckingerite Uranopilite Autunite Me ta-urauocircite Saleeite Sabugalite...biaxial ( - ) . A number of sulfates (joha11nite, uranopilite) and carbonates (liebigite, rabbittite, rutherfordine)...distiict, Colo. (Sims, 1955). Noted in Belgian Congo pitchblende are Pb, Fe, Co, Ni, 1'1o, and Se. Uraninite...and quartz (black) which also replaces core. Bigay mine, Lachaux, Auvergne, France ( X 100) ( Geffroy and
Journal (issue)
tra11che 11nidesce11dame s011s dalle de bé1011 à la mine de Margnac (Ha11te-Vie1111e) - Photo: COGEMA (GST)...siècle. Aujourd·hui. il ne reste plu qu·une eule mine d"uraniurn en acti ité. à Jouac dan le nord du département...Klaproth découvre cc nouveau métal dan du minerai de mine de Jachymov (Joachimsthal). le baptisant du nom...l925. Victor La aile découvre la chalcolite clan la mine du Crôt Blanc prè de Grury (Saône-et­ Loire). En...cc temp . . la m i n e de ra d i u m de Shinkolobwe (Katanga) e t réouverte pour l'uranium en 1 9-l:i
Report (issue)
accident in the search for copper in the Belgian Congo, for cobalt and silver in the Northwest Territories...Goldfields area, Saskatchewan, Canada; the Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Zafre; and the medium-sized deposits...Joachymov, Czechoslovakia, and at Schwartzwalder mine, Colorado, U.S.A.). Uranium deposits have been found...pi anat ion). 19 Symbol: Name: 1AVM Midnite mine, Stevens County, 80 kilometers northwest of Spokane...Peters lease (or Northwest Uranium mine, also known as the Sherwood mine), Stevens County, Washington, U
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characterized by the formation of zippeite, uranopilite, johannite, and glpsum, and there may be extensive...of Von Foullon's specimensthrough the courtesy of Dr. A. Schiener, Curator of Mineralogy of the Natural...column 4 of Table 1, and supplied for examination by Dr. George Switzer of the U. S. National Museum, was...presenceof uranophane (?) is noted in material from Angel mine (analysis 16, which lacks CaO), and this mineral...deposits, including the Colorado Plateau region, Katanga, Great Bear Lake, and Joachimsthal, undergoes an
Book (edition)
co-author, teacher, mentor, colleague and friend, Dr. Joseph A. Mandarino. -Malcolm E. Back Fleischer's...they are: Dr. Peter Bayliss, Dr. Ernst A.J. Burke, Dr. Anton and hakhmouradian,Robert Gault, Dr. Julian...Låszl6 Horvåth, Dr. Uwe Kolitsch, Locock,Gaspare Malet.to,Dr. Roger Mitchell, Renato Pagano. Dr. Ole Petersen...Robert Ramik,Andy Roberts, hallit, Dr. Chris Stanley,Tony Steede and Dr. ThomasWitzke. upport and encouragementof...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the
Book
K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt...804)3 •nH20, ® Hex. Transparent bluish. Lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan, Afghanistan. H= 5.5-6, Djj4=...*21120, Mon. Vitreous colorless, white. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. H= 4.5, Djjj= 2.630, D(
Book (edition)
This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Sinkankas for his kind initiative and support...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...by Strunz (1996). Thanks to the kind permission of Dr. E. Nagele from the E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung...arisen with localities in Congo-Zaire: the country, named Democratic Republic of Congo since 1960, was changed...Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy...phosphates 74 uranocircite 73, 74 uranophane 84, 85 uranopilite 62 uranotile 84, 85 vauquelinite 63 verdelite...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...brown opaque octahedrons in clay at Destricella Mine near Raddusa (Enna) in Italy. A brief mention should
Book
beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy...phosphates 74 uranocircite 73, 74 uranophane 84, 85 uranopilite 62 uranotile 84, 85 uvarovite 77, 78 vanadates...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...brown opaque octahedrons in clay at Destricella Mine near Raddusa (Enna) in Italy. A brief mention should
Report (volume)
Environmental issues such as coping with uranium mine and mill tailings and other uranium-contaminated...plutonium in nature. J Am Chem Soc 73:3278-3283. Lovley DR, Phillips EJP, Gorby YA, Landau ER 1991 Microbial...Microbial reduction of uranium. Nature 350:413416 Lovley DR, Phillips EJP 1992 Reduction of uranium by Desulfovibrio...the most important U mineral at the Ningyo-toge mine in Japan, where it was first discovered (Muto et...rare hydrated Ba-uranyl oxyhydroxide from the Shinkolobwe mine, where it forms bright orange pseudohexagonal
Report (issue)
Radium lode-was first found in the South Terras mine in 1873 (Robertson and Dines, 1929, p. 147). Penrose...of ore was sold up to 1907 from the South Terra.s mine and that about 576 tons of uranium ores was produced...Uranium also was known to occur in the Leyden Coal mine~ Jefferson County, Colo., as early as 1875 (Berthoud...in the conterminous United States is to the Rajah mine, known earlier as the Copper Prince ( Briiyn, 1955...19p6) stated that "The initial shipment from the mine, made in 1898, • • • the South Terras property near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Possible Source for Critical Elements: The Eureka Mine Case, Castell-Estaó, Catalonia Montgarri Castillo-Oliver...Castell-estaó village (Catalonia). However, the mine was never productive and exploration was finally...[2]) have since then been described and the Eureka mine even became a type locality of new minerals (i.e...uranium deposit. Moreover, the access to all the mine tunnels and outcrops not only allowed good 3D sampling...Image Image of of the the main main Eureka Eureka mine mine outcrops, outcrops, with with Castell-estaó Castell-estaó
 
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