Buttgenbachite with Cuprite and Malachite - Likasi Mine (Panda Mine), Congo (Zaire), Democratic Republic of the - 8 x 6 x 6 cm / main crystal: 1 cm

Mineral: Buttgenbachite with Cuprite and Malachite
Locality: Likasi Mine (Panda Mine), Likasi, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 6 cm / main crystal: 1 cm

Description: Mass: 524 g MIM number: 1657 Beautiful tuft of bright blue acicular crystals on a matrix of small cuprite crystals on which green malachite needles have also grown. Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; Ex collection: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Brussells, Belgium)