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Cobaltoan Calcite

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Cobaltoan Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 4.5 × 2.9 cm
Description

Scintillating, intensely pink, sharp scalenohedrons of gem cobaltoan calcite crystals on matrix on this intensely colorful specimen. Old-time material from the 1970s.Ex Hoffmann collection, Germany

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cobaltoan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Co)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0