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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: 
4.3 × 3.2 × 2.3 cm
Weight: 
30.00gr
Description

Sharp 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 cover splendidly the matrix, that is rich in silver to black carrollite crystals.

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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