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Cobaltoan Dolomite

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Cobaltoan Dolomite

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Description
Locality: 
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 2.6 × 2 cm
Description

, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo 37x26x20

Translucent dolomite crystals with an external layer of attractive bright pink cobalt-bearing dolomite. They cover richly the matrix that includes crystals of lustrous silvery carrolite. Colourful specimen that was collected at Mashamba by Achiel Moors, a Belgian colonist in the D.R.Congo from 1957 to 1972.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cobaltoan Dolomite

Variety Of: 

Dolomite

Formula: 
CaMg(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Mg,Co)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

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