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Crednerite Halloysite & Cyanotrichite

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Crednerite Halloysite & Cyanotrichite

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Description
Locality: 
Maid of Sunshine Mine, Turquoise District, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1 × 0.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a base of crednerite hosting an odd patch of cyantrichite coated with hisingerite and nice balls of white halloysite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Crednerite

Formula: 
CuMnO2
Strunz: 
4.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Colour: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Glücksstern Mine, Gottlob Hill, Friedrichroda, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany

Halloysite

Group Parent: 
Kaolinite-Serpentine Group

Cyanotrichite

Formula: 
Cu4Al2(SO4)(OH)12·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.DE.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Moldova Nouă (Neumoldowa), Moldova Nouă-Sasca Cu-Mo ore field, Banat Mts, Caraş-Severin Co., Romania

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