Phosphuranylite | |
Category: | Phosphate minerals |
Formula: | KCa(H3O)3(UO2)7(PO4)4O4·8(H2O) |
Imasymbol: | Puy[1] |
Strunz: | 8.EC.10 |
System: | Orthorhombic |
Class: | Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m) |
Symmetry: | Cmcm |
Other: | Radioactive |
References: | [2] [3] [4] [5] |
Phosphuranylite is a uranyl phosphate mineral with formula KCa(H3O)3(UO2)7(PO4)4O4·8(H2O).[3] [4] [5]
It was first described in 1879 by Frederick Augustus Genth, from an occurrence in the Flat Rock pegmatite in Mitchell County, North Carolina, US.[4]