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Kipushite On Reichenbachite

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Kipushite On Reichenbachite

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Description
Locality: 
Kipushi Mine, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.1 × 1 cm
Description

Beautiful specimen of bluish botryoidal reichenbachite richly covered by rosettes with hundreds of light green kipushite crystals with very good transparency and vitreous lustre. The groups cover a matrix of light brown porous rock (Kipushi gossan), rich in white pyromorphite crystals (analysed in a similar piece).

Ex Eudore Toussaint collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kipushite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn)5Zn(PO4)2(OH)6·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.35
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
Pale blue
Type Locality: 
Kipushi Mine (Prince Léopold Mine), Kipushi, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Reichenbachite

Formula: 
Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Point 8.0, Borstein, Reichenbach, Lautertal (Odenwald), Odenwald, Hesse, Germany

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