Description
Species: Metatorbernite
Locality: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
Dimensions: 7 cm x 5 cm x 2 cm
Excellent, colorful, aesthetic Musonoi mine specimen featuring apparently 2 generations of crystals of green metatorbernite – dark, thin tabular crystals and lighter crystal aggregates – lining a fracture in altered siliceous dolostone matrix. Eric Quinter specimen U/Th 0199, pictured on Mindat.org. Rare!!