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Cuprodongchuanite & Veszelyite

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Cuprodongchuanite & Veszelyite

New Mineral type

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Description
Locality: 
Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 3.8 × 3 cm
Description

Cuprodongchuanite has finally been approved and published by the IMA (IMA 2021-065). This mineral with the formula Pb4ZnZn2(PO4)4(OH)2  occurs in pale blue to green balls on transparent hemimorphite.

Stunning isolated crystals of Cuprodongchuanite (2 perfect crystals) along some isolated veszelyite crystals on white hemimorphite. Rare quality !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprodongchuanite

Formula: 
Pb₄CuZn₂(PO₄)₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂
Type Locality: 
Tangdan Mine, Dongchuan Cu ore field, Dongchuan District, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Veszelyite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn)2Zn(PO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.30
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Ocna de Fier (Vaskö-Moraviţa; Vaskö-Moravicza; Eisenstein), Ocna de Fier-Dognecea District, Banat Mts, Caraş-Severin Co., Romania

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