Category Phosphate minerals Crystal system Orthorhombic | Strunz classification 8.EC.10 Space group Cmcm | |
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Formula(repeating unit) KCa(H3O)3(UO2)7(PO4)4O4·8(H2O) Crystal class Dipyramidal (mmm)H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m) | ||
Phosphuranylite is a uranyl phosphate mineral with formula KCa(H3O)3(UO2)7(PO4)4O4·8(H2O).
It was first described in 1879 by Frederick Augustus Genth, from an occurrence in the Flat Rock pegmatite in Mitchell County, North Carolina, US.
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