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Plancheite With Malachite

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Plancheite With Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
M'Sesa Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 3.8 × 2.5 cm
Weight: 
42.00gr
Description

Typical M'sesa specimen featuring a regular aggregate of light blue acicular plancheite and minor shattuckite forming a big spheroidal group. The clusters were brecciated and the fractures and cavities were filled up by primary crystallized malachite and black patches of heterogenite.

Collected before 1968 by Martíal Borzee, a Belgian colonist to Congo.

Ex. Martíal Borzee specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Plancheite

Formula: 
Cu8(Si8O22)(OH)4·H2O
Strunz: 
9.DB.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Sanda carriere (Sanda quarry; Sanda Mine), Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville)

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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