Planchéite

     
Planchéite with malachite
Origin: L’Etoile du Congo, Elizabethville, Katanga, Congo
Ex. Richard Hauck collection
Sample size: 7.7 x 5.0 x 2.8 cm
 
  
Plancheite (and chrysocolla?) pseudomorph after calcite on dioptase
Origin: Tantara, Katanga, Republic of the Congo
Ex. Ed Swoboda collection
Sample size: 5.6 x 5.3 x 4.7 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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