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Cornetite

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Description
Locality: 
Star of the Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 4.6 × 2.1 cm
Description

Blue crystalized cornetite from the type locality. They are very well defined, have good brightness and are abundantly spread on the carbonate matrix.

Collected by Eudore Toussaint, a Belgian chemical engineer in the D.R.Congo from 1948 to 1971. Ex. Eudore Toussaint #20.

It comes with the original old wood socle from the collection.

Mineral Data
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Cornetite

Formula: 
Cu3(PO4)(OH)3
Strunz: 
8.BE.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
L'Etoile du Congo Mine (Star of the Congo Mine; Kalukuluku Mine), Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)...

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