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Libethenite

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Libethenite

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Description
Locality: 
Miguel Vacas Mine, Conceição, Vila Viçosa, Évora District, Portugal
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13.5 × 7.5 × 4.5 cm
Description

Very attractive and good old time specimen with hundreds of beautiful sharp and translucent, lustrous libethenite crystals and blue-green, globular pseudomalachite on both sides of this old time specimen.

Very good display specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Libethenite

Formula: 
Cu2(PO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Podlipa deposit, Ľubietová (Libetbánya; Libethen), Banská Bystrica Co., Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia