Uranophane, Malachite, Digenite: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo

Species: Uranophane, Malachite, Digenite
Locality: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
Dimensions: 5 cm x 3 cm x 2.5 cm

Beautiful, very rich and well-crystallized specimen of bright canary-yellow, acicular uranophane with green malachite on dark digenite in altered siliceous dolostone matrix from the famous Musonoi mine in the DR Congo. Wonderful under the microscope! Eric Quinter specimen U/Th 0345, pictured on mindat.org.