Locality
38°10´ east longitude, 2°5´ south latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Mutulu mine, Ikutha, Kenya, Afrika

Personal relationship of donor
Technical Cooperation

Historical relevance of location
Pure carbon in the form of graphite is an important material for technical applications.

Geological relevance of location
The final stage of metamorphism of organic material is graphite.

Classification of the earth

Structure	Graphite is one of the crystal forms of carbon; it is hexagonal.
Colour	silver grey
Age	unknown, ?Precambrian

Donor

Geoscientific Collections Section of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Geological Survey of Lower Saxony,
 Hannover,
 Germany