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Glaucocerinite

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Glaucocerinite

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Description
Locality: 
Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 3.8 × 3 cm
Description

Crust of botryoidal glaucocerinite with intense blue color that exceeds by far the typical sky blue color usually seen on glaucocerinite from Lavrion. Specimen is more than 20 years old and comes from a private collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Glaucocerinite

Formula: 
(Zn1-xAlx)(OH)2(SO4)x/2·nH2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.35
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Serpieri Mine, Kamariza Mines (Kamareza Mines), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamariza), Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece

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