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Cobaltoan Calcite

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Cobaltoan Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.9 × 3.9 × 1.5 cm
Description

Sharp flattened rhombohedral crystals of calcite of the variety cobaltoan, on a crust of thin cobaltoan calcite of good pink colour. Mounted on a socle.

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

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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