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 mining area, 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”
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