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Chrysocolla

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Description
Locality: 
Likasi Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 5.7 × 2 cm
Weight: 
37.00gr
Description

Aggregate composed of alternating botryoidal layers of chrysocolla of greenish-blue and blue colour and glassy aspect, on the typical Likasi matrix.

Ex René Virlet, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968. It comes with his handwritten label.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chrysocolla

Formula: 
Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4·nH2O (x < 1)
Strunz: 
9.ED.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5

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