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Népouite Psm Vaesite

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Népouite Psm Vaesite

Pseudomorph

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 2.9 × 2.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Description

A really very rare specimen, from my own collection of pseudomorphs. It features highly lustrous metallic grey octahedral crystals of vaesite partially transformed to green nepouite. The matrix is a mass of massive vaesite with zones of transformed to nepouite masses.

Originally in the collection of Gabriel Fauvart, who bought it in 1982.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Népouite

Formula: 
(Ni,Mg)3(Si2O5)(OH)4
Strunz: 
9.ED.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Népoui Mine, Poya North Commune, Northern Province, New Caledonia

Vaesite

Formula: 
NiS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Kasompi Mine (Menda Mine; Kasompi Hill), Swambo, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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