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Chrysocolla
L'Etoile du Congo Mine (Star of the Congo Mine; Kalukuluku Mine), Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Southern area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo
Cabinet, 14.9 x 11.5 x 4.8 cm
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Yes, this is a natural specimen of chrysocolla. This was a find not too long back at the copper-rich L'Etoile Mine in Congo, of chrysocolla that is so strange and pretty you can hardly believe it is real. The botryoidal surface looks like molten plastic, and is an intense, deep robin's-egg blue. This is actually a ridge that is covered on both sides with this extraordinary chrysocolla.

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