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Pseudomalachite On Malachite

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Pseudomalachite On Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
M'Sesa Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 6.8 × 3.4 cm
Description

Banded dark blueish-green copper phosphate pseudomalachite on copper carbonate malachite, classic old-material from the M’sesa Mine. Free of damages.

Collected before 1968 by Martíal Borzee, a Belgian colonist to Congo.

Ex. Paul Van Wassenhove K256. Ex. Bob Liveyns specimen.

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

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