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Cuprodongchuanite With Veszelyite

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Cuprodongchuanite With Veszelyite

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Description
Locality: 
Sanguozhuang Mine, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 0.6 cm
Description

Very aesthetic and beautiful specimen, richly decorated with lots of light blue cuprodongchuanite balls high in contrast to dark blue and well formed veszelyite crystals. The specimen is very rich set of both minerals. Acquired from the working group that investigated the new mineral. Specimen from type locality. Cuprodongchuanite is only known from ONE locality worldwide. Very beautiful for the eye.

Note: Cuprodongchuanite is the dominant phase, but could be intermingled with minor dongchuanite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprodongchuanite

Formula: 
Pb₄CuZn₂(PO₄)₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂
Type Locality: 
Tangdan Mine, Dongchuan Cu ore field, Dongchuan District, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Veszelyite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn)2Zn(PO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.30
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Ocna de Fier (Vaskö-Moraviţa; Vaskö-Moravicza; Eisenstein), Ocna de Fier-Dognecea District, Banat Mts, Caraş-Severin Co., Romania

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