Yellow crystals of the very rare mineral paraschoepite from the TL in Shinkolobwe (Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo) in a black contrasting matrix. Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium. — Photo: David Hospital · CC BY-SA 4.0
Paraschoepite
Paraschoepite is an IMA-recognized mineral species in the oxides & hydroxide class, with the chemical formula UO₃·(2-x)H₂O.
It crystallizes in the orthorhombic crystal system (space group Pbca).
Key properties: Mohs hardness 2–3; Yellow streak; optically biaxial.
IMA symbol Pshp, IMA status: questionable, named in 1947.
An alteration product of schoepite from the oxidized zone of uranium-bearing mineral deposits.
It is found associated with Schoepite, becquerelite, uraninite (Shinkolobwe, Congo); schoepite, arsenuranylite, metazeunerite, uranospinite, nováčekite (Cherkasar deposit, Uzbekistan).
Its name comes from the Greek for near, and for its relation to schoepite.