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Native Copper With Cobaltoan Dolomite

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Native Copper With Cobaltoan Dolomite

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Description
Locality: 
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.1 × 10 × 6.3 cm
Weight: 
900.00gr
Description

Big size specimen that weights almost 1 Kg*, featuring lustrous arborescent growths of native copper wires and crystals, that are filling the intercrystallite pockets between pale pink rhombohedral cobaltoan dolomite crystal on matrix.

Collected in the early 1990’s. Ex. Johann Muizebelt specimen.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copper

Formula: 
Cu
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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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