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Cobaltoan Calcite

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Cobaltoan Calcite

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Kakanda, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.4 × 1.1 cm
Description

Floater group of bright, well-formed vivid, deep pink, acute rhombohedral crystals of calcite of the variety cobaltoan.

Collected at Kakanda by René Virlet, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travelled back definitively to Belgium in 1968.

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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