University of Hamburg Mineralogical Museum of the University of Hamburg
Mineral name
 
Zeunerite
Zeunerite, walpurgite (10 x 7 x 5,5 cm)
Hölzel-No.
 
8.EA.115
Type of specimen
 
T
IMA-No. / Accepted
 
prä-IMA / 1872
Chemical formula
 
Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2 · 10-16H2O
Type locality
 
Germany, Saxony, Ore Mts., Schneeberg-Neustädtel, Weißer Hirsch mine (shaft 3), Walpurgis Flacher Gang
Associated minerals
 
Goethite, quartz, walpurgite, uranophane, uranosphärite
Collection
 
Geowissenschaftliche Sammlungen - TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Contact person
 
Andreas Massanek
Catalogue−No. / Site
 
21735 / PV 26, mittl. R. 6
Nature of 
type specimen

 
Mineral specimen
References

Mittheilungen an Professor H.B. Geinitz, Freiberg 9. Februar 1872
Weisbach, A. (1872)
Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, 106-208
Notes / Further information

Weisbach got this sample from Tröger in 1871.
Last update 27. April 2022 by A. Matthies Imprint (german)