PLANCHEITE, DIOPTASE, MALACHITE


Specimen: #8466
Locality: Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Congo - Kinshasa
Size: 30mm x 26mm x 26mm
Size description: Miniature
Shipping: USA 8.60, Canada 11.80, Worldwide 12.80, China via UPS 29.00 (USD)
Status: SOLD

A wonderful specimen of super Plancheite balls decorated aesthetically by Dioptase “diadem”. The rare secondary Copper silicate Plancheite forms splendid balls with needle crystals of sky blue color. Above are scattered lustrous Dioptases with dark emerald-green color. Parts of some crystals are gemmy. At the base is present grass green Malachite. Some contacts, mainly at the outside edges (seen on the photos). On acrylic base.

Overwhelming Plancheite-Dioptase specimen!



PLANCHEITE, DIOPTASE, MALACHITE

PLANCHEITE, DIOPTASE, MALACHITE

PLANCHEITE, DIOPTASE, MALACHITE

PLANCHEITE, DIOPTASE, MALACHITE

PLANCHEITE, DIOPTASE, MALACHITE