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Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Star of the Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.6 × 1 cm
Description

Well-developed primary malachite crystals with very good lustre richly covering a crust of banded fibrous malachite crystals.

Specimen #071 from the collection of Achiel Moors, a Belgian colonist in the D.R.Congo from 1957 to 1972.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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