Minerals of the Chickering Mine Walpole, NH                RUTHERFORDINE     UO2(CO3)                 Back to Chickering front page.
Specimen owner ID's (capitals): TM = Tom Mortimer, BW = Bob Wilken, BJ = Bob Janules, PC = Peter Cristofono, AW = Anna Wilken
Photographer ID's (lower case).
Identification: EDS analysis EDS analysis was not sensitive to carbon, so the hydrated yellow uranium oxide schoepite is also a possibility.
Discussion:
Highslide JS
RUTHERFORDINE    0.7 mm cavity filled with rutherfordine? -- not fluorescent      TM      Photo: RUT_1   [tm]
Highslide JS
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1.5 mm field of view      TM