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Aragonite Flos Ferri

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Aragonite Flos Ferri

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Description
Locality: 
Kakontwe, Likasi, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.3 × 6.4 × 5.5 cm
Weight: 
63.00gr
Description

Nice arborescent growth of white flos ferri aragonite, typical from Kakontwe but rarely available from this locality in this good quality. Kakontwe is well known for purple fluorite that is rarely represented in collections, but aragonite is less usual.

Collected by René Virlet, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aragonite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Gallo river, Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Flos Ferri

Variety Of: 

Aragonite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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