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Chrysocolla Psm Malachite

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Chrysocolla Psm Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Lupoto Mine, Kakumba, Kipushi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 4.4 × 3.5 cm
Description

From a new find at the Lupoto mine, far superior in color and form to all the previous discoveries featuring a rare pseudomorph of chrysocolla after what I fibrous malachite sprays, a small amount of green malachite from the primary mineralization is still evident. 

I have only came across one of these so far, the rest are all blocky styles I only have 20 pieces of this material in total so don’t miss out. Complete and 3-D with typical brown earthen botryoidal casts in the typical pale plancheite style of all preceding discoveries surround the fancy new color rich fibrous structures. The weight is also nothing like the hollowed out casts of old finds that we have all come to know, instead these crystals are solid and stable not delicate at all consisting of solid chrysocolla of significant weight.

Literally hundreds of individual prismatic vivid turquoise chrysocolla crystals are present in each of the structures terminating into what I would consider is a typical spheroidal dome.

Undamaged.

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

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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