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Shattuckite

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Description
Locality: 
Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.6 × 1.9 cm
Description

Aggregate of fibrous shattuckite crystals of intense blue colour, associated to dark green crystalized malachite. This specimens from shangulowé are certainly very scarce in collections.

Ex. Achiel Moors specimen, a Belgian colonist in the D.R.Congo from 1957 to 1972.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Shattuckite

Formula: 
Cu5(Si2O6)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DB.40
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Shattuck Mine (Shattuck-Denn Mine; Shattuck-Arizona Mine; Denn Mine), Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

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