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Libethenite

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Libethenite

Type Locality
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Miguel Vacas Mine, Conceição, Vila Viçosa, Évora District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 6 × 5 cm
Description

Libethenite is a secondary copper phosphate mineral, forms dark green peudo-octahedral crystals on iron stained schist matrix.

Great specimen with lustrous crystals - collected 1981

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