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Planerite & Pseudomalachite

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Planerite & Pseudomalachite

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Description
Locality: 
Minancos Mine, Barrancos, Beja District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm
Description

specimen with some very nice light sky-blue crystalline aggregates of planerite with associatr greenish balls of malachite.

c. 4493

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Planerite

Formula: 
Al6(PO4)2(HPO4)2(OH)8·4 H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.15
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Chernovskaya Mt, Chernaya River, Verkhnyaya Sysert', Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Pseudomalachite

Formula: 
Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Virneberg Mine (St Josephsberg Mine), Rheinbreitbach, Linz am Rhein, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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