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Cobaltoan Calcite

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Cobaltoan Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.7 × 1 cm
Description

Sharp elongated modified scalenohedral crystals of calcite, variety cobaltoan, of a superb fuchsia colour. The piece represents a good example of this type of material from Kambove where the crystals are distributed at almost all faces of the matrix.

Collected at the Kambove mine by René Virlet, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968.

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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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