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Katangite

Synonym of:Plancheite


Discredited in 2007 as being identical to plancheite; Schoep (1930) considered it identical to chrysocolla.

References for Katangite

Reference List:Schoep, A. (1930): New researches on planchite and shattuckite. Identity of the two minerals. Notes on bisbeeite and katangite. Bulletin de la Société française de Minéralogie 53, 375-393.

Ann. Soc. Géol. Belg. (1968): 91: 401.

Burke, Ernest A.J. (2007) A Mass Discreditation of GQN Minerals. Canadian
Mineralogist 44(6): 1557-1560.

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