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

Size: 2.25 x 1.42 x 1.03 inches

Here is a small miniature piece of a mineral that you don’t see very often and is the first time I have carried it as I was able to import a dozen pieces 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.