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Buttgenbachite

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Description
Locality: 
Likasi Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.15 × 0.15 × 0.1 cm
Description

Outstanding specimen of  deep blue buttgenbachite crystals on a small matrix of cuprite and malachite.

Buttgenbachite is a mineral rarely seen in the mineral market and when it is present, almost always is as isolated very small crystals without matrix. 

This specimen is exceptional since it is on a small matrix !.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Buttgenbachite

Formula: 
Cu19(NO3)2(OH)32Cl4·2H2O
Strunz: 
3.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Likasi Mine (Panda Mine), Likasi (Jadotville; Jadotstad), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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