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Azurite

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3 × 2.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

Very beautiful old azurite specimen - collected between 1940 and 1945.

Sharp, lustrous azurite crystals on a bed of calcsite crystals with minor duftite microcrystals.

This truely very good old specimens comes with a nice old label.

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...