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Kipushite On Pyromorphite

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Kipushite On Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Kipushi Mine, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.7 × 0.9 cm
Description

From the type locality, this is beautiful specimen featuring sharp, light green kipushite crystals, richly covering a cavity lined by hundreds of white prismatic pyromorphite (analysed in a similar piece), typical at the light brown porous Kipushi gossan.

These kipushite crystals are quite big, of good transparency and of superb vitreous lustre.

Ex Francis Hubert #13476b.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kipushite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn)5Zn(PO4)2(OH)6·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.35
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
Pale blue
Type Locality: 
Kipushi Mine (Prince Léopold Mine), Kipushi, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Pyromorphite

Formula: 
Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Zschopau, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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