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Azurite

ex collection Christian Köstenbauer
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Description
Locality: 
Errachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

New find early 2015. Bought at the Sainte-Marie show by C. Köstenbauer from the miner. Not many of those stalactitic grown crystal clusters exist.

This specimen is small (as all from this locality are), but pristine, with excellent color. It seems to be a floater, broken, but healed.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Azurite

Formula: 
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Chessy copper mines, Chessy-les-Mines, Le Bois d'Oingt, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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