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Chalcopyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Kipushi Mine, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 8.4 × 6.5 cm
Weight: 
915.00gr
Description

Hand size specimen of massive golden coloured chalcopyrite of very intense metallic lustre, and minor dark blue bornite. Heavy (915g) representative specimen from this super classic mine that is very rare in this big size, even in specialized Congo collections.

It was collected before 1960 and it is from the stock of Robert Verdoodt, who was working in the laboratories of Union Minière du Haut-Katanga and evacuated to Belgium that very year, after the beginning of the Congo crisis.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chalcopyrite

Formula: 
CuFeS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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