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Cattierite

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Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 4.8 × 3 cm
Weight: 
70.00gr
Description

Very bright grey metallic cattierite of silver grey colour with light bronze reflexes, embedded in dolomite and quartz matrix. Collected before 1960 at the Shinkolobwe mine, the type locality, by Robert Verdoodt, who was working in the laboratories of Union Minière du Haut-Katanga and evacuated to Belgium in 1960 after the beginning of the Congo crisis.

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Mineral Data
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Cattierite

Formula: 
CoS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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