Parsonsite is a lead uranium phosphate mineral with chemical formula: Pb2(UO2)(PO4)2·2H2O.
It forms elongated lathlike pseudo monoclinic crystals, radial spherulites, encrustations and powdery aggregates.
[3][4] It was first described in 1923 for an occurrence in the Shinkolobwe mine, Katanga Copper Crescent, Democratic Republic of Congo.
It was named for mineralogist Arthur Leonard Parsons (1873–1957) of the University of Toronto, Canada.
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