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Botallackite

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Botallackite

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Description
Locality: 
Herzog Julius Smelter Slag Locality, Astfeld, Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 2.7 × 2.6 cm
Description

This is a very good specimen from a famous German slag locality.

Beautiful and sharp, intense blue Botallackite crystals in a vug of the ancient slag with a beautiful white spray of gypsum.

Ex Rheinländer collection

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Botallackite

Formula: 
Cu2(OH)3Cl
Strunz: 
3.DA.10b
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK