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Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Sepon Mine, Vilabouly District, Savannakhet Province, Lao (formerly Laos)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5 × 2.7 cm
Description

Dark malachite with berry-like rounds that give a beautiful and unusual shape. The malachite is very dark – almost black-green – with good silky shine. The backside was extracted from the rock. These fractured surfaces show the usual beautiful malachite green. This beauty hails from the Sepon Mine in southern Laos, at open pit copper and gold mine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0