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MD-226403
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, 13.5 x 12.0 x 5.2 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 Democratic Republic of Congo, of chrysocolla that is so strange and pretty you can hardly believe it is real. The two-sided, botryoidal surface looks like molten plastic: one side is an intense, deep robin's-egg blue; while the other side is a more turquoise-blue, with hints of green.