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Cornetite

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Ravenswood, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 9.5 × 3.5 cm
Weight: 
238.00gr
Description

By far the most cornetite specimens come from DR Congo these days. Here is a rare australian specimen from Ravenswood, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia: Crusts of petrol-blue cornetite microcrystals are perced on matrix, associated likely with green malachite or chrysocolla..

Comes with old Southwest Scientific Company / Scott J. Williams label dated 1964-1966.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cornetite

Formula: 
Cu3(PO4)(OH)3
Strunz: 
8.BE.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
L'Etoile du Congo Mine (Star of the Congo Mine; Kalukuluku Mine), Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)...

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