Location: Shituru Mine, Likasi, Kambove District, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo

Size: 1.57 x 0.8 x 0.85 inches

This is one of the nicest pieces I was able to acquire of this mineral species that you don’t see very often and is the first time we have carried it and was imported with a dozen other pieces directly from Africa.

Libethenite is a rare secondary copper phosphate mineral found in the oxidized zone of copper ore deposits. The phosphate is often derived from the weathering of apatite and other rock-forming phosphates such as monazite and xenotime.