Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Cobaltoan Dolomite

Views:
Watches:
PDM725120

Cobaltoan Dolomite

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 3 × 2.2 cm
Description

Sharp modified rhombohedral crystals of dolomite, variety cobaltoan, where the thick external layer presents a superb, intense fuchsia colour. Crystal development is very good and they are extremely bright. The brown dolomite matrix is also included by lustrous carrollite crystals associated to black patches of bornite.

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

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cobaltoan Dolomite

Variety Of: 

Dolomite

Formula: 
CaMg(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Mg,Co)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps