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Azurite & Zincolivenite

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Azurite & Zincolivenite

ex collection Stephan Bathen
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Description
Locality: 
Leibnitz-Dante Mine, Hoffnungsthal, Rösrath, Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 7.4 × 4.5 cm
Description

Very nice specimen, full of little azurite crystals (color appears darker in nature). Some tiny tufts of zincolivenite crystals between the rows (not pictured). 

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...

Zincolivenite

Formula: 
CuZn(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.30
Hardness: 
3.5 - 0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamariza), Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece

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