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Vauquelinite & Pyromorphite

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Vauquelinite & Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Kipushi Mine, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 1.1 × 0.9 cm
Description

Old and very rare locality specimen of fluorescent-yellow to crystallized vauquelinite, associated to pale green prismatic crystals of pyromorphite on matrix. Rich specimen for the locality. Mounted on an acrylic socle.

It was analysed by RAMAN and the analyses will be provided with the specimen.

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

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vauquelinite

Formula: 
Pb2Cu(CrO4)(PO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
7.FC.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Tsvetnoi Mine, Uspenskaya Mt, Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Pyromorphite

Formula: 
Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Zschopau, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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