Spherical aggregates of translucent Cuprodongchuanite, with good luster and a pale green color, on Quartz matrix, with Calcite, and with by pale sky-blue botryoidal Hemimorphite crystals and Veszelyite crystals.
Cuprodongchuanite is a new species recently approved by the IMA (reference number IMA 2021-065), but still pending publication. A find made at the end of the year 2021, it is a curious phosphate of Pb, Cu and Zn, the copper analog of Dongchuanite, and comes from the type locality (TL)
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province China (28/12/2021)
Specimen size: 5.8 × 5 × 2.9 cm = 2.28” × 1.97” × 1.14”
Price:
€260 / US$278 / ¥36900 / AUD$410 |