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Quartz Conichalcite & Parnauite

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Quartz Conichalcite & Parnauite

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Description
Locality: 
Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill, Tooele County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm
Weight: 
5.00gr
Description

Quartz matrix with a cavity containing quartz crystals coated in a second generation of white quartz druse associated with blue/green parnauite and bright green conichalcite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Conichalcite

Formula: 
CaCu(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Hinojosa del Duque, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain

Parnauite

Formula: 
Cu9(AsO4)2(SO4)(OH)10·7H2O
Strunz: 
8.DF.35
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Majuba Hill Mine (Majuba Mine; Mylar Mine; Tin Mine; Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology sample sites 2844 & 2846), Antelope District, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA

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