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Kolbeckite Kasolite Dewindtite & Torbernite

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Kolbeckite Kasolite Dewindtite & Torbernite

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a fracture surface that is host to dozens of tiny pink crystals of kolbeckite with prisms of kasolite, small clusters of dewindtite and torbernite plates. Very rare occurence at the mine and hard to find samples of kolbeckite from here! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kolbeckite

Formula: 
ScPO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Sadisdorf, Schmiedeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Kasolite

Formula: 
Pb(UO2)[SiO4]·H2O
Strunz: 
9.AK.15
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Dewindtite

Formula: 
H2Pb3(UO2)2(PO4)4O4·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.EC.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Torbernite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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