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Oosterboschite

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Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.1 × 1 cm
Description

Black porous grains and crystal aggregates of the extremely rare palladium selenide oosterboschite from the type locality in Musonoi, associated to yellow guilleminite, uraninite and trogtalite.

Analyzed specimen by SEM/EDS by the former owner of the specimen (the Vandenbroucke Museum) but the analysis is no longer available.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
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Oosterboschite

Formula: 
(Pd,Cu)7Se5
Strunz: 
2.BC.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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