Plancheite

  

Deep blue, compact fibrous crystals of plancheite in spongy matrix with malachite

Origin: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba Cu belt, Shaba, Congo

Ex. Kidwell collection

Sample size: 5 x 5 x 3 cm

 

  

Specimen with a large opening in malachite lined with light grayish blue plancheite and aurichalcite.

Origin: Katanga, Congo

Sample size: 8 x 5 x 3 cm

 

  

Origin: Prospect West of Magdelena, Silver Hill district, Socorro Co., New Mexico, United States

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3 cm

 

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Plancheite pseudomorph after cuprite

Origin: Kambove, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo

Sample size: 3 x 5 cm (top), 1.5 x 2.5 cm (bottom)

 

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This is a limonitic matrix which has a vug that is coated with light green plancheite and deep green microcrystals of dioptase.

Origin: Katanga, Congo

Ex. Rick Green collection

Sample size: 5.3 x 4 x 2 cm

 

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