Metatorbernite (or meta-torbernite) is a radioactive phosphate mineral, and is a dehydration pseudomorph of torbernite. Chemically, it is a copper uranyl phosphate and usually occurs in the form of green platy deposits. It can form by direct deposition from a supersaturated solution, which produces true crystalline metatorbernite, with a dark green colour, translucent diaphaneity, and vitreous lustre. However, more commonly, it is formed by the dehydration of torbernite, which causes internal stress and breakage within the crystal lattice, resulting in crystals composed of microscopic powder held together using electrostatic force, and having a lighter green colour, opaque diaphaneity, and a relatively dull lustre. As with torbernite, it is named after the Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman. It is especially closely associated with torbernite, but is also found amongside autunite, meta-autunite and uraninite.
Metatorbernite (or meta-torbernite) is a radioactive phosphate mineral, and is a dehydration pseudomorph of torbernite. Chemically, it is a copper uranyl...
Cu2+ cation replaces a Ca2+ cation. Torbernite tends to dehydrate to metatorbernite with the sum formula Cu[(UO2)(PO4)]2(H2O)8. Torbernite was found for...
the village. Minerals found here include azurite, baryte, malachite, metatorbernite, and pseudomalachite. Nearby travel links are: Leuchars railway station...
Members of the Autunite and Meta-Autunite Groups: Torbernite, Zeunerite, Metatorbernite and Metazeunerite". The Canadian Mineralogist. 41 (2): 489–502. Bibcode:2003CaMin...
schoepite, kasolite, curite, boltwoodite, vandendriesscheite, billietite, metatorbernite, fourmarierite, studtite and sklodowskite. It forms under acidic to...
Musonoi mine Metatorbernite from the Musonoi Mine Location Musonoi mine Province Lualaba Province Country Democratic Republic of the Congo Coordinates...
specimen with soddyite, sklodowskite and a member of the metazeunerite-metatorbernite series. The matrix of the type material is quartz with disseminated...
massive pods and disseminated veinlets of pitchblende, with secondary metatorbernite, autunite, gummite and gold, with minor pyrite, galena and chalcopyrite...
(January–February 1956). "Abernathyite, a new uranium mineral of the metatorbernite group" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 41 (1–2): 82–90. Look up abernathyite...
the predominant hematite/quartz including weeksite, beta-uranophane, metatorbernite, soddyite, kasolite, billietite, and barite. Figure 3. shows the geomorphology...
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