Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Gold & Guilleminite

Views:
Watches:
SMM797621

Gold & Guilleminite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Very nice aggregate (4.0 mm) of gold crystals on the typical Musonoi selenium rich digenite matrix together with some groups of bright yellow guilleminite crystals. Very good specimen.

Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gold

Formula: 
Au
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Guilleminite

Formula: 
Ba(UO2)3(SeO3)2(OH)4·3H2O
Strunz: 
4.JJ.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps