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Aurichalcite

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Aurichalcite

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Locality: 
Mfouati Mine, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Congo (Republic)
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.7 × 1.7 cm
Description

A beautiful specimen from the M'fouati Mine with a rich coverage of sprays of bright blue acicular aurichalcite crystals on matrix associated with small colourless hemimorphite crystals. Collected in the 1980's, one of just a dozen recovered samples.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aurichalcite

Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Loktevskoye Mine (Loktevskii Mine), Upper Loktevka River, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia
Cartils Minerals

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