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Plancheite

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Plancheite

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Description
Locality: 
Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 5 × 3 cm
Weight: 
69.00gr
Description

Spheroidal groups of light blue acicular crystals of plancheite richly covering a typical light matrix from Shangulowé. Minor crystallized malachite is also associated. Collected before 1968 by Martíal Borzée, a Belgian engineer who worked in Congo.

Ex. Martíal Borzée specimen.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Plancheite

Formula: 
Cu8(Si8O22)(OH)4·H2O
Strunz: 
9.DB.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Sanda carriere (Sanda quarry; Sanda Mine), Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville)

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