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Tenorite

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Description
Locality: 
Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 2 × 0.9 cm
Description

Black glassy tenorite mass in a light blue chrysocolla matrix.

Collected at the Kambove Mine by René Virlet, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tenorite

Formula: 
CuO
Strunz: 
4.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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