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Malachite Stalactite

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Malachite Stalactite

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Kakanda, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.2 × 4.1 × 2.9 cm
Weight: 
208.00gr
Description

Stalactitical growth om fibrous malachite with the surface covered by lustrous malachite microcrystals. The base is also crystallized, so it is afloater piece, with the classic central hole running longitudinal through the core. No damages. Mounted on an acrylic socle.

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

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Malachite

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

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