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Plancheite On Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 3.1 × 1.9 cm
Weight: 
13.00gr
Description

Radial aggregates of sky blue crystals of plancheite on a brownish-red rhombohedral calcite crystal. Collected in Mashamba by Rene Virlet, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968. Ex. René Virlet collection.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Plancheite

Formula: 
Cu8(Si8O22)(OH)4·H2O
Strunz: 
9.DB.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Sanda carriere (Sanda quarry; Sanda Mine), Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville)

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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EUROPE 1 . or 2 (Tracked)
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