A group of exceptionally sized, translucent, and lustrous tabular crystals of metatorbernite (dehydrated torbernite). The green color displays aesthetical internal reflections. From this classic locality in the Katanga region. Accompanied by two antique labels. An exceptional miniature.

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Druse of dioptase crystals, with very defined faces and edges, brilliant, transparent, and disposed on a quartz rocky matrix. The color is very distinctive, difficult to reproduce in photography. They are accompanied by small aggregates of malachite crystals, with a different green. A piece of good size and quality.

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Druse of dioptase crystals, with very defined faces and edges, brilliant, transparent, and disposed on a quartz rocky matrix. The color is very distinctive, difficult to reproduce in photography. They are accompanied by small aggregates of malachite crystals, with a different green. A piece of good size and quality.

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Very rich curite specimen, with some intense orange color crystals and the rest black due to being coated by heterogenite. The sample comes from the former Coune collection and according to its owner was adquired from the 90s, but specimen could be older. Curite crystals are disposed in a very contrasted way on the white matrix. From the type locality for the species.

Small but interesting specimen of curite that presents groups of brilliant acicular prismatic crystals with an intense orange color. Observed under the microscope we can see that they have transparency and are accompanied by yellow crystals soddyita. This radioactive mineral is named after Pierre Curie (see wikipedia) and this sample is from Shinkolobwe, the type locality for the species. A chance to get a piece with curite crystals.