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Plancheite On Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kamoya, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.1 × 1.9 cm
Description

Crust of light blue plancheite with acicular crystals and a botryoidal surface because it covers an aggregate of scalenohedral calcite. Aesthetic piece from the Kamoya mine, locality that is rarely represented in collections.

Old specimen, perfectly located because it was collected before 1968 by Martíal Borzée, a Belgian engineer to Congo.

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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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