Katangite

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Chrysocolla
Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)
© Antonio Borrelli

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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Localities for Katangite
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