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Malachite Psm Azurite

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Description
Locality: 
Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 5.3 × 2.5 cm
Weight: 
64.00gr
Description

A good old specimen featuring a matrix covered at two faces by well-defined azurite crystals of flat, razor terminations, that are completely replaced by lustrous green malachite. An uncommon specimen from the Shangulowé mine, where world-class specimens of malachite after baryte were found long ago. In this mine pseudomorphs after azurite are very rare.

It was collected before 1960. Ex Robert Verdoodt, who was working in the laboratories of Union Minière du Haut-Katanga and evacuated to Belgium after the beginning of the Congo crisis in 1960.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Malachite

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

Azurite

Formula: 
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Chessy copper mines, Chessy-les-Mines, Le Bois d'Oingt, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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Belgium (Tracked)
7.50
NL, DE, FR, LU (Tracked)
10
EUROPE 1 . or 2 (Tracked)
11.12
CANADA (Tracked)
14
USA (NOT Tracked) . or USA (Tracked)
14
REST (Tracked)
14

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