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Cobaltoan Calcite

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Cobaltoan Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.3 × 1.1 cm
Description

Sharp modified scalenohedral crystals of calcite, variety cobaltoan, where the thick external layer presents a superb fuchsia colour. Crystal development is very good and they are extremely bright. The piece represent a good example of this type of material from Kambove where the crystals cover richly all around a piece of 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

Cobaltoan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Co)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

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