👉 Okay, let’s tackle this…
wilkite03
. Frankly, I haven't personally inventoried that little monstrosity into my geological thesaurus (seriously, who names minerals wilkite anyway? It sounds like a disgruntled badger from the Firth of Forth).
Essentially, "wilkite 03" according to the scant and frankly rather bewildered documentation I’ve dredged up from obscure mineral outcrop databases, is a uraniumthoriumvanadium monohydrate silicate. (Let's just dispense with the pretty term immediately.) It's essentially a very,
very
poorly behaved mouthful of rockstuff that was recently unearthed in… wait for it… the Gottingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany!
Now, here’s what makes wilkite 03 weird: you basically only get this stuff when there is an extremely unusual combination of radioactive decay and super-saturated mineral water. It's a geological teenager— moody, unstable, and prone to dramatic, fleeting existence. Before it even cools down, the uranium and thorium have already begun to, you know…
decay
.
Basically, wilkite 03 isn’t so much a mineral as it is a really frantic, short-lived announcement of what just
happened
beneath the ground. 99% of people would probably forget about it existed before they even finished their lukewarm Earl Grey. It's like that weird scribble you find in your grandpa's attic –