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Shattuckite

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Description
Locality: 
M'Sesa Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.7 × 7.4 × 6.4 cm
Weight: 
320.00gr
Description

Old specimen of gorgeous radial aggregates of deep blue shattuckite with silky reflexes on a light pale green chrysocolla matrix, called “katangite”, and minor dark green malachite. Classic aesthetic groups from this old locality of good size, almost 10 cm.

Collected before 1968 by Martíal Borzee, a Belgian colonist to Congo. Ex Martíal Borzee specimen.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Shattuckite

Formula: 
Cu5(Si2O6)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DB.40
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Shattuck Mine (Shattuck-Denn Mine; Shattuck-Arizona Mine; Denn Mine), Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

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