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Baryte & Heterogenite

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Baryte & Heterogenite

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Description
Locality: 
Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 3.7 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.90cm
Description

Transparent bicoloured baryte crystals, with nice blue phantoms, oriented in two parallel directions, on a black heterogenite matrix. Uncommon material in the market, collected in the 1960’s.

Ex Pierre Rondelez Specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

Heterogenite

Formula: 
CoO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FE.20
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Wolfgang Maaßen Mine field, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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