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Sample n° 660

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
HETEROGENITE	Co3+O(OH)	oxides and hydroxides	-	major
MALACHITE	Cu2(CO3)(OH)2	carbonates	-	minor

Description

Description: black mass with green crust

Information: Deliens, M., 1974. Les Oxydes Hydratés de Cobalt du Shaba Méridional (République du Zaïre). Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Série In-8°, n° 76, 80 pp. // Decrée, S., Pourret, O. & Baele, J.M., 2015. Rare earth element fractionation in heterogenite (CoOOH): implication for cobalt oxidized ore in the Katanga Copperbelt (Democratic Republic of Congo). Journal of Geochemical Exploration 159, 290-301.

Origin

• Country: Congo (RDC)
• Region: Katanga
• Locality: Likasi

Specification

• Donors: UMHK
  Donation year: 1926
• Sampling year:
  Registration date:
• Quantity: 2 + TUBES
  Size: 2

• Dimension code 1>2>3: 3
  Quality code 1>2>3: 1
• Holotype: no
  Paratype: no
  Radioactive: no
• Thin section: yes
  Chemical analysis: no
  X-Ray spectra: yes

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