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Cobaltoan Calcite & Quartz

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Cobaltoan Calcite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.6 × 1.9 cm
Description

Very sharp modified scalenohedral crystals of calcite, variety cobaltoan, of an intense pink colour, associated to transparent quartz crystals. This combination with quartz is uncommon and highly sought-after by collectors. The piece is small but represents the type of material from Kambove. Collected at the Kambove mine 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

Cobaltoan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Co)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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