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Kolwezite
- Mashamba West mine
- Kolwezi
- Lualaba Province
- DRC
- 5.0 × 4.2 × 2.5 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)
Kolwezite is a copper cobalt carbonate, related to malachite and rosasite. Deliens & Piret (1980) named the mineral for Kolwezi, a town nearby the type locality. Perchiazza & Merlino (2006) showed the cobalt and copper occupy separate sites in the crystal structure, and thusly revising the species formula.
Velvety kolwezite mostly covers a matrix of pink crystallized calcite. From the collection of E.R. Laskowski (1949-2020), a mining engineer who retired to Tucson, Arizona.
Price: $125
Item code: MS1897
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