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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fourmarierite
Formula:Pb(UO2)4O3(OH)4 · 4H2O
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Uranophane24 photos of Fourmarierite associated with Uranophane at this locality.
Becquerelite18 photos of Fourmarierite associated with Becquerelite at this locality.
Studtite16 photos of Fourmarierite associated with Studtite at this locality.
Uraninite10 photos of Fourmarierite associated with Uraninite at this locality.
Rutherfordine8 photos of Fourmarierite associated with Rutherfordine at this locality.
Vandendriesscheite6 photos of Fourmarierite associated with Vandendriesscheite at this locality.
Lepersonnite-(Gd)3 photos of Fourmarierite associated with Lepersonnite-(Gd) at this locality.
Billietite2 photos of Fourmarierite associated with Billietite at this locality.
Masuyite2 photos of Fourmarierite associated with Masuyite at this locality.
Richetite2 photos of Fourmarierite associated with Richetite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fourmarierite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Photo GalleryView Gallery (27 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:5376
Long-form Identifier:1:3:5376:1
GUID (UUID V4):2d6e5fd6-8759-4a1a-ac14-25a689e41943
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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
mining organizations, such as Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, should not be forgotten. It is evident that...Buttgenbach H. (1 947) Les Mineraux de Belgique et du Congo Beige. 573 p. Paris: Ed. Dunod. Cesbron, F. (1985)...the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo introduced a new admin istrative subdivision for...concern the former Katanga Province. According to the new subdivision, the former Katanga Province is now...three new provinces: the Haut-Katanga Province, the Lualaba Province and the Haut-Loma mi Province. What
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
powderdata are presented for vandendriesscheite, fourmarierite, masuyite, and w61sendorfite. Literature data...hexavalent uranium are known: curite (Schoep, I92I), fourmarierite (Buttgenbach, I924), masuyite, vandendriesscheite...1957), and the unnamed 'Mineral C' from the Wiseman mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, briefly described...centrale from the uranium deposit of Shinkolobwe, Shaba ( = Katanga), have been systematically re-examined...orange or red. Curite, which is very common at Shinkolobwe, is easily distinguished by its acicular habit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of schoepite, [(UO2)8O2(OH)12](H2O)12, and fourmarierite, Pb[(UO2)4O3(OH)4](H2O)4, have the same underlying...whereas adjacent layers are not shifted in fourmarierite. The minerals becquerelite, [7]Ca(H2O)4[(UO2)3O2(OH)3]2...shows a schoepite crystal from Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, with a prominent (001) face slightly...drawing of a prismatic crystal of schoepite from Katanga on which the [100], [010] and [110] edges define...typical rectangular crystals of schoepite from Katanga (http://webmineral.com/data/schoepite.shtml). The
Report (issue)
07(4) b = 40.85(12) X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo; cannot be distinguished from metavandendriesscheite...Total 100.48 99.24 [100.00] 100.00 (1–2) Shinkolobwe, Congo. (3) Great Bear Lake, Canada; original total...Metavandendriesscheite, fourmarierite, becquerelite, metatorbernite, rutherfordine, uraninite (Shinkolobwe, Congo). Distribution:...Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At Great Bear Lake, Northwest...Holsljunga, Västergötland. From the Monument No. 2 mine, Monument Valley, Apache Co., Arizona; in Leiper’s
Report (issue)
09 b = 12.04–12.31 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 7.08 (100), 3.52 (70), 3.12 (50), 3.56 (35)...5.74 Total [100.00] [100.00] 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo [type I material]; by electron microprobe...Association: Uraninite, rutherfordine, becquerelite, fourmarierite, wyartite, wölsendorfite, kasolite, metastudtite...Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, and the Kamoto mine, near Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province...Zaire). In the El Sharana mine, South Alligator Valley, Northern Territory, Australia. Found at the Rabéjac
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...Association: Uraninite, schoepite, soddyite, curite, fourmarierite, dewindtite, ianthinite, wölsendorfite, rutherfordine...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
Journal (issue)
net NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2022 Articles The Laohuan mine, Goncheng, Zhuang, Guangxi, China.................Type Mineralogy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...................................................yellow pyromoprhite crystals, 9 cm, from the Laohuan mine, Gongcheng County, Guangxi, China. Federico Pezzotta... Hickox, Jr. Wally Mann Keith and Diane Brownlee Dr. Nikolas Golosow William B. (Bill) Wray Herb & Monika...w w.FineMineral.com Copper Pearl Handle Pit Ray Mine, Arizona 13 cm Copper has been an essential metal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vaes (1947) from Shinkolobwe mine, Haut-Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, and later...originates from the type locality, Shinkolobwe mine (Haut-Katanga province, DRC, Africa). A tabular grayish...brown) among masuyite (orange). Shinkolobwe mine (type locality), Haute-Katanga province, DRC, Africa. FOV...the molar proportion of H2O and Me close to fourmarierite, masuyite and protasite. Also the value of charge...Hawthorne 2008), ~0.21 v.u., is close to that of fourmarierite (0.19 v.u.) and masuyite (0.22 v.u.). It has
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Six nouveaux mineraux d'urane provenant de Shinkolobwe (Katanga). Bull. Soc.BelgeGeol.,7O,B 212-225 (1947)...at only one place in the Shinkolobwe deposits, associated with fourmarierite and diderichite. Named for...died in 1945, who had studied minerals of Belgian Congo. M.F. Richetite J . F. Yrns, op. cit. Small (0.1... formerly Chief Geologist, Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga. M.F. 384 NEW MINERAL NAMES 385 Studtite... geologist, who published a geological map of Katanga in 1913' M.F. Diderichite I. r-.v^Es, op. cit.
Report (volume)
(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...available earlier, the date of recognition of fourmarierite, vandendriesscheite, beta-uranophane, and kasolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EPIIANTHINITE, URANIUM MINERALS FROM SHINKOLOBWE (BELGTAN CONGO) Ar,rnrn Scnoup axp Serr Stnaoror, Bauileloostraat97...5UO3 '9+HrO has been foundin the uranium mine oI Shinkolobwe. Properties: color,yellow; h a b i t , i...Paraschoepite and epiianthinite occur in the Shinkolobwe uranium mine (Katanga)' They belong to the uranium hydroxide... 89.31 10.69 1. Analysisof paraschoepiteof Shinkolobwe. 2. Molecular proportions. 3. Molecularratios...becquerelite, schoepite, mineral X (Palache), and fourmarierite. The last named is, it is true, a lead uranatg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Calciouranoite Clarkeite Compreignacite Curite Fourmarierite Gauthierite Heisenbergite Ianthinite Leesite...Wyartite Meta-wyartite Rameauite Fourmarierite [DUPUDP] 4:7 Fourmarierite Schoepite Metaschoepite Leesite...Becquerelite Billietite Compreignacite Gauthierite Fourmarierite Richetite Protasite Masuyite Agrinierite Rameauite...(schoepite), circle (vandendriesscheite), square (fourmarierite), triangle (wölsendorfite), diamond (curite)...Vandendriesscheite Becquerelite Compreignacite Fourmarierite Richetite Protasite Masuyite Curite Sayrite
Report (issue)
= 7.1563(5) Z = 4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 7.53 (10), 3.77 (9), 3.17 (8), 2.03 (6)...9.58 99.67 100.48 100.00 (1-2) Shaba Province, Congo. (3) Ba(UO2)6O4(OH)6·8H2O. Occurrence: An uncommon...product of uraninite. Association: Uranophane, fourmarierite, metatorbernite, rutherfordine, becquerelite...Distribution: From Shinkolobwe and in the Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province...Province, Zaire). From the La Crouzille mine, and the Margnac mine, Compreignac, HauteVienne, and in the Rabéjac
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
determination, is based upon U–O–OH sheets of the fourmarierite topol­ogy and an interlayer filled only by molecular...the Shinkolobwe (originally Kasolo) mine, the Haut-Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo. The...contributed to the knowledge of uranium minerals from Congo. The first reliable X-ray studies were undertaken...originates from the Shinkolobwe mine, the Haut-Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. The specimen...polymerize into the sheets of the so-called fourmarierite topology, which is composed of pentagons and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Of the 322 entries*, the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) comes out on top with 88; Namibia...indebted to Dr.Joseph Mandarino of Toronto, Canada, and Dr. Werner Krause of Hiirth, Germany, who supplied dates...briartite shares with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Namibia, and both djerfisherite and niningerite...Localities (1) Kanemite: Kanem region, Lake Chad. CONGO(3) People (2) Fornacite: Lucien Louis Fourneau (18671930)...(18671930), colonial governor, French Congo. Plunchkite: Mr. PlanchC, French explorer. Localities (1)
Report (issue)
Fourmarierite Pb(UO2 )4 O3 (OH)4 • 4H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...c = 14.293(9) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 3.562 (100), 3.169 (100), 7.12 (80), 3.523...54 15.13 7.33 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; recalculated to 100% after deduction of...Distribution: Relatively abundant from Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At Morogoro...area, Quebec, Canada. In the USA, from the Palermo mine, near North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire;
Report (issue)
c = 30.3(1) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 7.63 (FF), 3.81 (m), 3.24 (m), 3.59 (fm)... 76.06 14.36 9.58 [100.00] 100.00 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; H2 O by difference, corresponds to UO2 •...parsonsite, dewindtite, fourmarierite. Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province...Saguache Co., Colorado, and in the Lucky Strike mine, La Sal Mountains, San Juan Co., Utah, USA. From
Report (issue)
8.390(13) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: “Katanga” district, Congo. 6.28 (10), 3.97 (9), 3.14 (8), 2.55 (6)...43 21.84 3.53 Total [99.22] 100.17 100.00 (1) Congo; average of three analyses, original total given...through alteration of uraninite. Association: Fourmarierite, vandendriesscheite, schoepite, soddyite, kasolite... sklodowskite. Distribution: At Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). From La...Wölsendorf, Bavaria, Germany. In the El Dorado mine, Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories; from the
Report (issue)
remaining FeO and CaO as impurities. (2) Katanga Province, Congo. (3) UO2 (CO3 ). Occurrence: A secondary...vandendriesscheite, billietite, metatorbernite, fourmarierite, studtite, sklodowskite. Distribution: From...Tanzania. At Shinkolobwe, from Kalongwe, and in the Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba...Mountain, Acworth, Sullivan Co., and in the Palermo mine, near North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire;...Utah, from the Delta mine, Emery Co., and in the “C” group of claims and the Jomac mine, White Canyon district
Report (issue)
08(4) c = 6.970(6) X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo. 8.06 (100), 4.02 (80), 3.488 (70), 3.193...100.00 4.93 4.36 4.13 5.26 10.14 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; by electron microprobe, average of six analyses... uranophane, wyartite, masuyite (Shinkolobwe, Congo); fourmarierite, vandendriesscheite, studtite, uranophane-beta...Province, China). Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo [Shaba Province, Zaire]. Found at...)3 (CO3 )(OH)6 • 3H2 O, nouveau minéral de Shinkolobwe, Shaba, Zaire. Bull. Minéral., 107, 21–24 (in
Journal (issue)
The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo ...............6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott Rudolph collection;...Charelle Webb (2012-2018) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum (2017) Bryan Swoboda (2012-2017)...Schreiber (2013-2017) Richard Nahas (2018) (2009-2018) Dr. Nikolas Golosow (2013-2017) Kulin Pandey (2018)...grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's specialties
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
new uranyl-oxide hydroxyhydrate mineral from Shinkolobwe with a novel uranyl-anion sheet-topology TRAVIS...hydroxy-hydrate mineral from the Shinkolobwe Mine, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa. It occurs on a matrix...crystal structure; topology; oxidation zone; Shinkolobwe. 38 1. Introduction 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46...description of a new mineral from the Shinkolobwe mine (Katanga, Congo, Africa), gauthierite (/go ti: 'ei...geologist, mineralogist, and a true connoisseur of Katanga minerals (King, 2006). The new mineral and its
 
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