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Cobaltoan Dolomite

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Cobaltoan Dolomite

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Description
Locality: 
Kakanda, Lubudi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.9 × 1.9 × 1.8 cm
Description

Attractive druse of lustrous sharp rhombohedral crystals of cobalt-bearing dolomite of nice pink colour. Rare specimen that was collected before 1960 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
What's on the rock

Cobaltoan Dolomite

Variety Of: 

Dolomite

Formula: 
CaMg(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Mg,Co)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

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