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Pseudomalachite On Malachite & Heterogenite

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Pseudomalachite On Malachite & Heterogenite

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Description
Locality: 
M'Sesa Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.2 × 4.5 × 2.8 cm
Description

Floater specimen that features a thick multiple layered malachite of typical green colour with a last layer of dark green pseudomalachite with a blueish hue. Finally, a thin coating of black heterogenite covers partially the pseudomalachite.

Ex. A.Moors, a Belgian colonist in the D.R.Congo from 1957 to 1972.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pseudomalachite

Formula: 
Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Virneberg Mine (St Josephsberg Mine), Rheinbreitbach, Linz am Rhein, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Heterogenite

Formula: 
CoO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FE.20
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Wolfgang Maaßen Mine field, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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