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Bluebellite & Murdochite

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Bluebellite & Murdochite

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Description
Locality: 
Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.8 × 1.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small thumbnail sample with tiny blue clusters of extremely rare bluebellite on matrix with murdochite psuedomorphs after wulfenite and fluorite. My last sample! From the original find made by Robert Reynolds. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bluebellite

Formula: 
Cu6[(IO3)(OH)3](OH)7Cl
Hardness: 
1.0 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Blue Bell Mine (Blue Bell claims; Hard Luck Mine; Hard Luck claims; Atkinson), Baker, Soda Lake Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Murdochite

Formula: 
PbCu6O8-x(Cl,Br)2x where x<=0.5
Strunz: 
3.DB.45
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Colour: 
Black
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine (Mammoth-St Anthony Mine; Mammoth Mine; St. Anthony Mine), St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA

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