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Copper In Cobaltoan Calcite

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Copper In Cobaltoan Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kamoto Principal Mine, Kamoto, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 4.2 × 2.9 cm
Description

Arborescent native copper trees nesting on rounded aggregates of cobaltoan calcite crystals of light pink colour. The copper is completely crystallized with nice elongated octahedra, with some flattened crystalized parts near the base.

Found by R.Virlet, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968. Ex. René Virlet specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copper

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

Cobaltoan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Co)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

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