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Shattuckite & Mottramite

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Shattuckite & Mottramite

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Description
Locality: 
Gloria Mine, Navojoa, Navojoa Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 3.1 × 2.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a very rich and vuggy miniature with beautiful dark and light blue sprays of shattuckite in several generations with minor patches of neon green mottramite var. duhamelite crystals. Very rich sample that could be trimmed into multiple nice micros. 

Mineral Data
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Shattuckite

Formula: 
Cu5(Si2O6)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DB.40
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Shattuck Mine (Shattuck-Denn Mine; Shattuck-Arizona Mine; Denn Mine), Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Mottramite

Formula: 
PbCu(VO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.40
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, England, UK

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