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Quartz On Shattuckite

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Quartz On Shattuckite

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Description
Locality: 
Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.6 × 1.6 cm
Description

Splendid specimen of transparent quartz crystals over blue shattuckite from Tantara Mine, Congo Kinshasa. The secondary copper silicate shattuckite has a pleasing blue color. Above grow sharp, lustrous and water clear quartz crystals. Due to the high quartz transparency the blue shattuckite at the base is well visible and it gives a nice colorfulness. In very good condition – some outside edge contacts.

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Shipping weight up to 0.250 kg

#19344

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Shattuckite

Formula: 
Cu5(Si2O6)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DB.40
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Shattuck Mine (Shattuck-Denn Mine; Shattuck-Arizona Mine; Denn Mine), Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA