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Buttgenbachite - Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo (#:MINS9164)

Rare eletric blue Buttgenbachite xls up to 2.5 mm on matrix with malachite and cuprite in association.

Formula :
Cu19[Cl4/(OH)32/(NO3)2] * 2 H2O

System: hexagonal Hardness:3 Rarity:very rare
Strunz id:III/D.3-30 - HALOGENIDES
Name origin: Named in 1925 by A. Schoep for Henri Buttgenbach (Verviers, Liège province, Belgium February 5, 1874 - Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, Brussels, April 29, 1964), a Belgian mineralogist.

Specimen weight:97 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2.5 mm
Overall size: 40mm x 35 mm x 24 mm

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Buttgenbachite - Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo

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