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Cattierite On Magnesite

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Cattierite On Magnesite

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 3.6 × 1.6 cm
Description

From the type locality, bright grey metallic cattierite crystals some with a light bronze reflex, in a white microcrystalline matrix of magnesite. Small geodes are completely covered by euhedral magnesite crystals.

Collected before 1960, It is an Ex. Robert Verdoodt specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cattierite

Formula: 
CoS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Magnesite

Formula: 
MgCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Magnisía Prefecture (Magnesia), Thessalia Department (Thessaly), Greece

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