Bright, light green spherical aggregates of Cuprodongchuanite implanted on a rock matrix covered by sky-blue botryoidal crystals of Hemimorphite. The color palette is completed with an intense blue corresponding to Veszelyite crystals in fan-shaped aerial growths. Cuprodongchuanite is a new species approved by the IMA, with reference number IMA 2021-065, but still pending publication. A find from 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: 3.8 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm = 1.50” × 1.42” × 1.14”
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