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Copper On Cobaltoan Calcite

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Copper On Cobaltoan Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kambove Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 4.5 × 3.2 cm
Weight: 
78.00gr
Description

Aesthetic arborescent crystallized native copper in different cavities covered by curved rhombohedral crystals of lustrous pink cobaltoan-rich calcite.

This candy specimen was collected at the Kambove mine by Rene Virlet, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968. Ex. René Virlet specimen.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copper

Formula: 
Cu
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Cobaltoan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

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

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