Labelled simply as Shaba, Zaire, based on photos in Mindat, L’Etoile du Congo Mine looks the most likely source. But you can never be sure! Platy crystals of libethenite with pale blue chrysocolla, lighter on...
Greenish yellow interpenetrant cube twin with interesting surface features. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality, Richard Bell
So-called velvet malachite”. Purchased at Keystone
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Malachite on colourless-grey barite crystals. Ex Downunder Minerals.
Tufts of acicular green crystals on pink cobaltoan calcite.
Radioactive soddyite from the Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre). Photo width 12mm. The Shinkolobwe Mine is the Type Locality for soddyite.
