University of Hamburg Mineralogical Museum of the University of Hamburg
Mineral name
 		 Kitagohaite
Kitagohaite (center) rimmed by hongshiite (reflected-light photomicrograph).
Hölzel-No.
 		 1.AH.220
Type of specimen
 		 HT
IMA-No. / Accepted
 		 2013-114
Chemical formula
 		 Pt7Cu
Type locality
 		 Democratic Republic of Congo, Lubero region
Associated minerals
 		 Hongshiite
Collection
 		 Geomuseum - Technische Universität Clausthal
Contact person
 		 Prof. Dr. Wilfried Ließmann
Catalogue−No. / Site
 		 No. 11331
Nature of 
type specimen
 		 Grain of a heavy mineral fraction.
References

Empirical Pt7Cu from an alluvial platinum concentrate and its significance for platiniferous quartz lodes in the Lubero region, DR Congo.
Cabral, A.R., Lehmann, B. and Jedwab, J. (2012)
N. Jb. Miner. Abh., 189, 217-221

Kitagohaite, Pt7Cu, a new mineral from the Lubero region, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Cabral, A.R., Skála, R., Vymazalová, A., Kallistová, A., Lehmann, B., Jedwab, J and Sidorinová, T. (2014)
Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 739-745
Notes / Further information

Discovered in a heavy mineral concentrate.
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