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Kasolite on Metatorbernite
- Musonoi mine
- Kolwezi
- Lualaba Province
- DRC
- 6.2 × 4.0 × 2.7 cm – Small cabinet specimen (under 10 cm)
Kasolite is a hydrous lead uranium silicate. Schoep (1921) named the mineral after Kasolo, site of the the type locality.
Kasolite forms yellow-orange crystals to 0.5 mm with platy metatorbernite crystals to 2 mm, all on fibrous malachite. The matrix consists of altered sulfides and massive malachite. From the collection of E.R. Laskowski (1949-2020), a mining engineer who retired to Tucson, Arizona.
Price: $100
Item code: MS1981
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