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Native Copper Cerussite & Mimetite

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Native Copper Cerussite & Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Kombat Mine, Grootfontein, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.8 × 2.5 cm
Description

A truely superb combination of Kombat minerals, based on copper matrix, lustrous unidentified green mineral (not malachite/bronchantite), cerrusite and mimetite are found all over the specimen.

A lovely piece.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copper

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

Cerussite

Formula: 
PbCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy

Mimetite

Formula: 
Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Treue Freundschaft Mine, Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany