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Cornetite

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Cornetite

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Description
Locality: 
Star of the Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.9 × 5.2 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Description

Flat dark blue cornetite crystals on matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cornetite

Formula: 
Cu3(PO4)(OH)3
Strunz: 
8.BE.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
L'Etoile du Congo Mine (Star of the Congo Mine; Kalukuluku Mine), Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)...