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Polianite

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Description
Locality: 
Kisenge Manganese Mine, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.3 × 2 cm
Description

Aggregate of black botryoidal growths of pyrolusite (variety Polianite), with intense metallic lustre. Very good and aesthetic piece for the locality. Old specimen which locality is uncommon in collections.

Specimen #115 from the collection of Eudore Toussaint, a Belgian Chemical Engineer in the D.R.Congo from 1948 to 1971. It comes with the original old wood socle from the collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Polianite

Variety Of: 

Pyrolusite

Formula: 
MnO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 6.5
Formula: 
morphological variety
Hardness: 
0.0

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