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Kolwezite

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Kolwezite

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Description
Locality: 
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Some, nice, pale-greenish, tufts of kolwezite spread on the matrix, from its type locality, with pinkish cobalt-rich crystalline calcite. Cute.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kolwezite

Formula: 
(Cu,Co)2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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