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Hoganite

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Description
Locality: 
Centennial Mine, Centennial, Houghton County, Michigan, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.6 × 0.5 × 0.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with several bright bluish green crystals of this unusual organic copper species. PXRD verified. It could not be determined if the crystals were a post mining product or formed naturally but the specimen was collected on the dumps of the mine. 

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Hoganite

Formula: 
Cu(CH3COO)2·H2O
Strunz: 
10.AA.35
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
pale blue
Type Locality: 
Perilya Potosi Mine (Potosi Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

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