Curite

  
Curite (orange-yellow) with soddyite (lighter yellow, right) and massive brown matrix of kasolite
Origin: Swambo mine, Katanga, Congo
Sample size: 5.5 x 4 x 3 cm
 
     
Curite (orange-yellow) with uranophane (bright yellow) and uraninite (black)
  
Curite with soddyite
  
Origin: Shinkolobwe mine, Katanga, Congo (type locality)
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2 cm (top), 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm (2nd row), 6 x 4 x 4 cm (bottom)
 
  
 
  
Curite with metatorbernite (green)
Origin: Shinkolobwe mine, Katanga, Congo (type locality)
Sample size: top 2 x 2 x 1 cm, bottom 3 x 2 x 2 cm, crystals to 1.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
"Gummite", mainly a mixture of curite, clarkeite, kasolite and uranophane
Origin: Ruggles mine, Grafton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6.4 x 4.9 x 2.9 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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