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Huenite Lindgrenite & Chenevixite

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Huenite Lindgrenite & Chenevixite

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Description
Locality: 
Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 2.8 × 2.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with a vug small vugs containing tiny red crystals of the new copper molybdate mineral huenite with dark green, transparent lindgrenite and frothy chenivixite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Huenite

Formula: 
Cu4(MoO4)3(OH)2
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Type Locality: 
San Samuel Mine, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile

Lindgrenite

Formula: 
Cu3(MoO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.GB.05
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile

Chenevixite

Formula: 
Cu2Fe3+2(AsO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.DD.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Wheal Gorland, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), Gwennap, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

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