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Plancheite

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Description
Locality: 
Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 4.3 × 2.7 cm
Description

A very good aggregate of blue plancheite with acicular crystals from the Kambove Mine. Old, classic and impossible to find specimen, if not such as this, form recycled collections.

Collected before 1968 by Martíal Borzee, a Belgian colonist to Congo.

Ex. Martíal Borzee specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Plancheite

Formula: 
Cu8(Si8O22)(OH)4·H2O
Strunz: 
9.DB.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Sanda carriere (Sanda quarry; Sanda Mine), Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville)

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