Cuprosklodowskite is a secondary uranium mineral formed by alteration of earlier uranium minerals. Its empirical formula is Cu(UO2)2(HSiO4)2·6(H2O).[3] Cuprosklodowskite is a nesosilicate mineral, It is grass green to dark green in color, and its crystal habit is typically acicular, flat bladed crystals. It is a strongly radioactive mineral.
Cuprosklodowskite was discovered in 1933 at the Kalongwe deposit in (then) Katanga province, Belgian Congo, the type locality. It was named in the mistaken belief that the mineral was the copper analogue of sklodowskite, which in turn was named for Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867–1934).
It occurs in association with becquerelite, brochantite, uranophane, kasolite, vandenbrandeite, liebigite
and compreignacite.[2][5]
Cuprosklodowskite is a secondary uranium mineral formed by alteration of earlier uranium minerals. Its empirical formula is Cu(UO2)2(HSiO4)2·6(H2O). Cuprosklodowskite...
minerals are also named after the Curies: curite, sklodowskite, and cuprosklodowskite. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship program of the European...
Oosterboschite Black Oosterboschite with trogtalite, cuprosklodowskite, and quartz from the Musonoi mine. From the Howard Belsky collection. General Category...
Guilleminite A cuprosklodowskite vug filled with well formed dark green vandenbrandeite crystals. These are dusted over with small yellow crystals of...
Trogtalite Piece of oosterboschite with cuprosklodowskite, quartz, and brown oxidized trogtalite from the Musonoi mine. From the Howard Belsky collection...
is the magnesium analogue of the much more common uranium mineral Cuprosklodowskite, which contains copper instead. It was discovered by Alfred Schoep [de]...