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Rouaite

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Rouaite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Tenke Deposit, Tenke-Fungurume, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.9 × 1.3 cm
Description

Greenish-blue rouaite crystals in cavities of cuprite from the Tenke deposit. Specimen hosts at least two crystals in two different cavities. 

Specimen has the ID T-R-2419-1

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rouaite

Formula: 
Cu2(NO3)(OH)3
Strunz: 
5.NB.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Roua Mines (Clue de Roua), Daluis, Guillaumes, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France...