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Cobaltoan Calcite

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Cobaltoan Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kakanda, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Description

Group of well-formed vivid, deep pink scalenohedral crystals of calcite (variety cobaltoan calcite). The euhedral crystals range up to 5 mm across, and the lustre is excellent.

Collected at Kakanda by René Virlet, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cobaltoan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Co)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

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