Hemimorphite w/ Cerussite
M'fouati, Bouenza Department, Republic of Congo
8.0 cm x 6.8 cm x 3.9 cm
This is one very attractive specimen from the newer discovery.
Beautiful blue botryoidal mounds of Hemimorphite cover the entire specimen.
The electric blue color mounds are translucent.
The camera lens seems to pick up a purple tone to the color, which the eye does not see.
There are vugs throughout and one goes all the way through,
leaving a hole to light up the inside of the hemimorphite lined vug.
The specimen has hundreds of colorless micro Cerussite crystals.
They are hard to see with the eye at first, but they fluoresce yellow with longwave uv lighting.
Quite a stunning specimen.
