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Cuprodongchuanite with Veszelyite, Hemimorphite and Calcite
Cuprodongchuanite with Veszelyite, Hemimorphite and Calcite. Photo: Joaquim Callén
Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cuprodongchuanite with Veszelyite, Hemimorphite and Calcite. Photo: Joaquim Callén
Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cuprodongchuanite with Veszelyite, Hemimorphite and Calcite. Photo: Joaquim Callén
Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cuprodongchuanite with Veszelyite, Hemimorphite and Calcite  

TC2340MGH: 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 forming aerial growths and isolated in the mineralized vug. 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: 8 × 7.1 × 4.2 cm = 3.15” × 2.80” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

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