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Libethenite

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Libethenite

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Description
Locality: 
Clegg Mine, Sanford, Lee County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some very nice libethenite crystals on matrix with pseudomalachite. This is the mineral that the Clegg Mine was most famous for, but specimens are very hard to come by. The Clegg Mine is long been closed. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Libethenite

Formula: 
Cu2(PO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Podlipa deposit, Ľubietová (Libetbánya; Libethen), Banská Bystrica Co., Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia

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