Autunite

Specimen ID: KJF-XNG

Mineral(s)
Autunite : Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2·10-12H2O
Locality
As recorded:
Capoeira 2 pegmatite, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Mindat locality:
Dimensions
15mm x 10mm x 10mm
Events

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Parelhas (Capoeira mine), Borborema Province, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Crystalline System: Orthorhombic (prism {110} + pinacoid {001}, and pinacoids {100}, {010}, and {001}. Genesis: secondary mineral from the oxidation zone of primary uranium minerals; hydrothermal veins of granite pegmatites (NEVES, P. C. P. das; ATENCIO, D. Enciclopedia dos minerais do Brasil - fosfatos, arsenatos e vanadatos. ULBRA: Canoas, 2017, p. 393). Associated minerals at locality: albite, amblygonite, "apatite", beryl, "biotite", columbite-(Fe), columbite-(Mn), cookeite, dravite, elbaite, euclase, gahnite, ilmenite, ixiolite, "lepidolite", lithiophilite, magnetite, microcline, muscovite, opal, "pyrochlore", quartz, rutile, schorl, spessartine, spodumene, "tantalite", triploidite, uraninite, and zircon (NEVES, P. C. P. das; ATENCIO, D. Enciclopedia dos minerais do Brasil - fosfatos, arsenatos e vanadatos. ULBRA: Canoas, 2017, p. 507). Geology and Mineralogy Laboratory at ULBRA, Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (former Pércio de Moraes Branco Mineral Collection). Photography: Luciano Valério.
Paulo Neves - 10th October 2019
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