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Oswaldpeetersite RC5166

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  • Oswaldpeetersite

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    Name: Oswaldpeetersite

    Location: Jomac Uranium Mine, San Juan County, Utah, U.S.A

    Name Reference: The mineral name honors Maurice Oswald Peeters (b. 1945), structural crystallographer at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and researcher in the field of uranium mineralogy. 

    Chemical Formula: (UO2)2(CO3)(OH)2 · 4H2O

    Crystal System and Class: Monoclinic - Prismatic, uranyl carbonate 

    Accompanying Minerals:

    Origin (Determinator + Year): Haynes P. 1999

    Publication: Oswaldpeetersite, (UO2)2CO3(OH)2-4H2O, a new basic uranyl carbonate mineral from the Jomac Uranium Mine, San Juan County, Utah, U.S.A.

    Renaud Vochten, Michiel Deliens, Olaf Medenbach. The Canadian Mineralogist. Vol. 39, pp. 1685-1689. 2001

     

    Info : http://www.mindat.org/min-10997.html

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