Weier, "Near-infrared spectroscopy of
autunites," Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, vol.
The primary uranium minerals are uraninite and coffinite but numerous secondary uranium minerals have been formed as a result of the weathering processes: yellow gummites,
autunite, metaautunite, torbernite, saleeite, uranotyle, ianthinite and uranopilite (Arribas, 1975).
The strongly sheared samples (such as sample 139, Table 2) have geochemical characteristics comparable to the mineralized zones containing chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite, and
autunite from the Millet Brook deposit (Chatterjee and Strong 1984), although the alteration intensity and elemental enrichment are much less pronounced in the drill core samples (Table 1).
Autunite has been reported as a very minor supergene mineral produced by weathering of alteration products of early-stage veins at the Globe Hill mine, and associated with other secondary uranium minerals in Tertiary volcanics (Thompson et al., 1985; Young and Mickle, 1976; Nelson-Moore et al., 1978).
Torbernite occurred with autunite in an altered Tertiary plug on Rhyolite Mountain (Nelson-Moore et al., 1978; Eckel, 1997).
Allan's Chilean proustite, Tsumeb dioptase, Tur kish kammererite, Mexican acanthite, Congo cuprite; Ralph's Swiss anatase, Brazilian
autunite, North Carolina hiddenite; both men's Montana veszelyites ...
Big
autunite specimens from the Daybreak mine near Spokane, Washington, are notorious for dehydrating and exfoliating or splitting over time.
Autunite Ca(U[O.sub.2]).sub.2]([pO.sub.4]).sub.2] [multiplied by] 10-12[H.sub.2]O
Common examples include
autunite and some fluorite, especially the purple/green specimens from Durham, England, which fluoresce blue.
Autunite is erroneously quoted in early internal reports; but in fact there is no radioactivity at all in the primary ore.
Agnes, liroconite crystals on matrix from Huel Gorland, beautiful chalcophyllite groups, botryoidal malachite from Wheal Unity, gold nuggets, superb cubic and octahedral cuprite crystals on matrix, lustrous jet-black sphalerite crystals, blue-tarnished chalcopyrite crystals on quartz, torbernite and
autunite crystals, phenakite crystals from St.