M'sesa deposit, Kambove, Central area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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Carrollite : Cu(Co,Ni)₂S₄, Calcite : CaCO₃
	M'sesa deposit, Kambove, Central area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre) Width of field is 5 cm. Collection of Jesse Crawford. Equipment: Nikon D-100 digital camera using a reversed 55 mm macro lens. Carrollite on calcite.
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Carrollite : Cu(Co,Ni)₂S₄
	M'sesa deposit, Kambove, Central area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre) Carrollite, 20 mm twinned crystals in a calcite vug - Ex M. Verole, March 2009 -
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Plancheite : Cu₈[(OH)₄\|Si₈O₂₂] · H₂O
	M'sesa deposit, Kambove, Central area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre) Very fine example of this beautyfull Copper Silicate. Plancheite is not rare in M'sesa, but in display specimens, it is. Old time classic, collected in the 1950's. Photo and collection, Paul De Bondt
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Plancheite : Cu₈[(OH)₄\|Si₈O₂₂] · H₂O, Cuprite : Cu₂O
	M'sesa deposit, Kambove, Central area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre) 1.7 x 1.1 x 0.6 cm. A showy and excellent thumbnail of lustrous, stacked, pastel-green to blue plancheite pseudomorphing sharp cuprite crystals from the less well-known M’sesa deposit of Zaire. This open-pit mine closed in the 1970s, so this is old and choice material, seldom available. Ex. Dick Jones Collection.
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Plancheite : Cu₈[(OH)₄\|Si₈O₂₂] · H₂O
	M'sesa deposit, Kambove, Central area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre) Perfect Plancheite example. 3x3 cm. Obtained by Steve Bringe (Summit Minerals). In my personal collection. Photo Simone Citon.
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Pseudomalachite : Cu₅[(OH)₂\|PO₄]₂, Malachite : Cu₂[(OH)₂\|CO₃]
	M'sesa deposit, Kambove, Central area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre) A nice piece of nearly black Pseudomalachite crystals with bright green Malachite crystals from the M'sesa deposit near Kambove. A gift from the late Joseph Lhoest. Specimen size, 67 mm. Collection and photo, Paul De Bondt.
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Shattuckite : Cu₅[(OH)₂\|(SiO₃)₄], Cuprite : Cu₂O
	M'sesa deposit, Kambove, Central area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre) 1.7 x 1.4 x 1.3 cm. Shattuckite is normally found as crusts or small acicular radiating sprays. I hear that once, in the early 1980s, they found a pocket of these amazing pseudomorphs after cuprite. I have seen 3 of them in my lifetime, only. This is the largest and sharpest by far of those. To find such a large shattuckite in the form of a ...
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