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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Paraschoepite
Formula:UO3 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Paraschoepite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:8377
Long-form Identifier:1:3:8377:5
GUID (UUID V4):3989d3f2-de81-45d5-b9cb-70b391e542c8
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
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INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT LAUF, PH.D. ._._...OUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Robert Laut holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering...information contact the publisher: Copyright Š 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
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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)
TWO NEW PARASCHOEPITE AND EPIIANTHINITE, URANIUM MINERALS FROM SHINKOLOBWE (BELGTAN CONGO) Ar,rnrn Scnoup...Bauileloostraat97, Ghent, Belgiurn' Ans:rr..tcr Paraschoepite, a new mineral with a chemical composition corresponding...5UO3 '9+HrO has been foundin the uranium mine oI Shinkolobwe. Properties: color,yellow; h a b i t , i...t:1.793.2V Paraschoepite and epiianthinite occur in the Shinkolobwe uranium mine (Katanga)' They belong...Palache rightly describes as peculiar. The name paraschoepite appeared to us as very suitable for the first
Report (issue)
Paraschoepite UO3 • 1−2H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic...= 15.22(5) Z = 32 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo; identical to metaschoepite. 5.09 (100),...O (1) 89.26 0.00 10.73 Total 99.99 (1) Shinkolobwe, Congo; corresponds to UO3 • 1.9H2 O. Occurrence:...Association: Schoepite, becquerelite, uraninite (Shinkolobwe, Congo); schoepite, arsenuranylite, metazeunerite...deposit, Uzbekistan). Distribution: At Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). From the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Six nouveaux mineraux d'urane provenant de Shinkolobwe (Katanga). Bull. Soc.BelgeGeol.,7O,B 212-225 (1947)...when heated. Occurs at only one place in the Shinkolobwe deposits, associated with fourmarierite and diderichite...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.
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
Report (issue)
surficial alteration towards metaschoepite and paraschoepite; yellow in transmitted light. Streak: Yellow...731(4) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shaba Province, Congo. 7.35 (100), 3.66 (50), 3.24 (9), 2.446 (9), 2.571...(2) 87.59 12.41 Total 100.00 (1) Shaba Province, Congo; UO3 average of four partial determinations, H2...soddyite, rutherfordine, uranophane (Shinkolobwe, Congo); paraschoepite, arsenuranylite, metazeunerite, uranospinite...Uzbekistan). Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). In the
Report (issue)
Cleavage: [{001}] (by analogy to schoepite and paraschoepite, with which this is an intermediate dehydration...here are intermediate between schoepite and paraschoepite). Pleochroism: X = almost colorless; Y = Z =...= 32 X-ray Powder Pattern: Shinkolobwe, Congo; identical to paraschoepite. 5.09 (100), 3.45 (25), 3.39...intermediate between schoepite, UO3 • 2H2 O, and paraschoepite, UO3 • 1−2H2 O. Occurrence: An irreversible...Association: Schoepite, paraschoepite. Distribution: From Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...crystals of schoepite (described originally as paraschoepite) (Fig. 1), reddish-orange needle-like curite...should be noted that we found no evidence for paraschoepite on the specimen (cf. Christ and Clark 1960)
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
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)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uraninite/pitchblende in several deposits, such as Shinkolobwe, Zaire; Nopal I deposit, Mexico; and the granitic...group (Burns 1999): schoepite, metaschoepite, paraschoepite, and “dehydrated schoepite” (Table 1). The empirical...metaschoepite, and paraschoepite from Shinkolobwe, Katanga district, Democratic Republic of Congo. Christ and...Stradiot (1947) described paraschoepite, 5UO3⋅9½H2O, but provided few data. Paraschoepite was reported by Christ...Finch et al. (1998) failed to identify any paraschoepite in the many samples they examined, and concluded
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
K-bearing schoepite-family mineral from the Jomac mine, San Juan County, Utah, U.S.A. Travis A. Olds1,*...hydroxyl-hydrate found underground in the Jomac mine, Brown’s Rim, White Canyon mining district, San...previously described, but poorly understood mineral, paraschoepite. Uptake of dangerous radionuclides (90Sr, 135Cs...Pb[(UO2)4O3(OH)4]·4H2O (Li and Burns 2000), paraschoepite, UO3·1.9H2O (Schoep and Stradiot 1947), * E-mail:...mining of rhodochrosite at Colorado’s Sweet Home mine. The rhodochrosite samples produced by this venture
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
product was a mixture. Powder data labeled "paraschoepite" in the Powder Diffraction File do not correspond...[S0885-7156(97)00303-5] Key words: schoepite, metaschoepite, paraschoepite, uranyl oxide hydrate, calculated powder pattern...[(UO2)8O2(OH)12](H2O)12, metaschoepite, UO3-2H2O (?), and paraschoepite U O 3 ( 2 - x ) H 2 O (?) (Christ and Clark...Metaschoepite Ref. 2 Metaschoepite (syn) Ref. 4 Paraschoepite Ref. 2 Ianthinite Ref. 5 14.337 16.813 14...Stradiot (1947) described the related mineral paraschoepite, 5UO3-9 1/2H2O, but provided few data. Christ
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...occurs in hydrothermal veins, as in the Belgian Congo. The relation between the names uraninite and pitchblende
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geol'ogicalSuraey, Washington 25, D. C. A specimen from Katanga labeled ianthinite and consisting of purplecolored...Katanga:Ann. Musdedu Congo Belge,Serie1,Tome l, 9-13. Scnom,A., ANnSrnenror,S. (1947),Paraschoepite andepiianthinite...(BelgianCongo):Am. Min.eratr.,32, 344-350. from Shinkolobwe ANALYSESAND INDICES OF REFRACTIONOF TOURMAT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
billietite to an uranium mineral from the Shinkolobwe mine in Katanga. According to the author, billietite...hydroxides, for instance in schoepite and in paraschoepite. A cleavage parallel to (101) has not yet been... Six nouveaux min6raux d'urane provenant de Shinkolobwe" Ann- Soc96ol.Belg.,70 (194G47),8 212-225, Liege
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
originated in the Shinkolobwedeposit, Katanga district, Belgian Congo' We are greatly indebted to Professor...thosereported by Schoepand Stradiot (1947)for paraschoepite (Table 22). One reason that schoepite II has...(obs.) X Y Z Schoep and Stradiot (1947), for paraschoepite c, paleyellow b, goldenyellow a, goldenyellow...measurements by Palache and Berman (1933). Others from Katanga; measurementsby J. W. Frondel. than normal variation...SchoePite II : metaschoepite SchoePite I[l : ParaschoePite VandendriesscheitcI: vandendriesscheite Vandendriesscheite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Katanga:Ann. Musdedu Congo Belge,Serie1,Tome l, 9-13. Scnom,A., ANnSrnenror,S. (1947),Paraschoepite andepiianthinite...(BelgianCongo):Am. Min.eratr.,32, 344-350. from Shinkolobwe ANALYSESAND INDICES OF REFRACTIONOF TOURMAT
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...LĂĽszl6 HorvĂĽth, 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
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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...weighing 20 tons have been found in the Katanga, Belgian Congo,¡ deposits. Single euhedral to subhedral...deposits; cubes in vugs at Shinko]obvve, Belgian Congo, and partial cubes in veins of some deposits in...Lake, Canada; Joachimsthal, Bohemia; Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo. Somevvhat siinilarly in the Sn deposits
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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
 
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