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    Curienite PB (UO) (V O) 5H O: Crystal Data: Physical Properties: Optical Properties

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    Curienite is a radioactive, yellow mineral that forms a series with francevillite. It has been found in oxidized uranium deposits in Gabon, the Czech Republic, and Iraq. Curienite has an orthorhombic crystal structure and chemical composition of Pb(UO2)2(V2O8)·5H2O. It occurs in association with minerals such as francevillite, duttonite, and vanuralite. Curienite was named after French mineralogist Hubert Curien.

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    Curienite is a radioactive, yellow mineral that forms a series with francevillite. It has been found in oxidized uranium deposits in Gabon, the Czech Republic, and Iraq. Curienite has an orthorhombic crystal structure and chemical composition of Pb(UO2)2(V2O8)·5H2O. It occurs in association with minerals such as francevillite, duttonite, and vanuralite. Curienite was named after French mineralogist Hubert Curien.

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    Curienite is a radioactive, yellow mineral that forms a series with francevillite. It has been found in oxidized uranium deposits in Gabon, the Czech Republic, and Iraq. Curienite has an orthorhombic crystal structure and chemical composition of Pb(UO2)2(V2O8)·5H2O. It occurs in association with minerals such as francevillite, duttonite, and vanuralite. Curienite was named after French mineralogist Hubert Curien.

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    Curienite PB (UO) (V O) 5H O: Crystal Data: Physical Properties: Optical Properties

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    Curienite Pb(UO2 )2 (V2 O8 ) • 5H2 O

    c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1

    Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point Group: 2/m 2/m 2/m. As a microcrystalline powder.

    Physical Properties: Hardness = n.d. D(meas.) = 4.88 D(calc.) = 4.94 Radioactive.

    Optical Properties: Semitransparent. Color: Canary-yellow.


    Optical Class: Biaxial (–) (synthetic). α = n.d. β = > 2 γ = > 2 2V(meas.) = 66◦

    Cell Data: Space Group: P can (synthetic). a = 10.40(4) b = 8.45(3) c = 16.34(4)


    Z=4

    X-ray Powder Pattern: Mounana mine, Gabon.


    3.005 (vvs), 8.19 (vvs), 4.10 (vs), 5.13 (s), 4.22 (s), 3.226 (ms), 2.116 (ms)

    Chemistry: (1) (2) (3)


    UO3 53.40 51.50 53.61
    V2 O5 17.32 17.87 17.04
    PbO 20.09 20.63 20.91
    BaO 0.84
    H2 O 8.30 10.00 8.44
    Total 99.95 100.00 100.00
    (1) Mounana mine, Gabon; by gravimetric and photometric methods, H2 O by the Penfield
    method; corresponds to (Pb0.97 Ba0.06 )Σ=1.03 (UO2 )2 (V2.04 O8 ) • 4.94H2 O. (2) Abertamy
    mine, Czech Republic; by electron microprobe, H2 O by microchemical methods.
    (3) Pb(UO2 )2 (V2 O8 ) • 5H2 O.

    Polymorphism & Series: Forms a series with francevillite.

    Occurrence: In the oxidized zone of a Pb-bearing U–V deposit (Mounana mine, Gabon).

    Association: Francevillite, duttonite, vanuralite, chervetite, mottramite, carnotite, dewindtite,


    torbernite, uranopilite, johannite, kasolite (Mounana mine, Gabon); sphalerite, galena, uraninite,
    quartz (Abertamy mine, Czech Republic); mottramite, metatorbernite, zeunerite (Jáchymov,
    Czech Republic).

    Distribution: From the Mounana uranium mine, Franceville, Gabon. In the Abertamy uranium
    mine, near Jáchymov, and in the Geister vein, Jáchymov (Joachimsthal), Czech Republic. From
    Akashat, Iraq.

    Name: To honor Professor Hubert Curien (1924– ), French mineralogist and crystallographer,
    Laboratory of Mineralogy and Crystallography, University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Sorbonne),
    Paris, France.

    Type Material: University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris; National School of Mines, Paris,
    France.

    References: (1) Cesbron, F. and N. Morin (1968) Une nouvelle espèce minérale: la curiénite.
    Étude de la série francevillite-curiénite. Bull. Minéral., 91, 453–459 (in French with English abs.).
    (2) (1969) Amer. Mineral., 54, 1220 (abs. ref. 1). (3) Boréne, J. and F. Cesbron (1971) Structure
    cristalline de la curiénite Pb(UO2 )2 (VO4 )2 • 5H2 O. Bull. Minéral., 94, 8–14 (in French with
    English abs.). (4) Pauliš, P. (1992) Curienite from Abertamy near Jachymov, Western Bohemia,
    Czechoslovakia. Časopis pro Mineralogii a Geologii, 37(1), 55–56 (in Czech with English abs.).

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in
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    permission of Mineral Data Publishing.

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