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Zálesíite & Philipsburgite

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Zálesíite & Philipsburgite

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Description
Locality: 
Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill, Tooele County, Utah, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Description

nice specimen with sprays of zálesíite partly covered by crysocolla and nice crystals of phillipsburgite up to 0.5 mm large in parageneses with a unknown lightblue mineral (maybe strashimirite)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zálesíite

Formula: 
CaCu6(AsO4)2(AsO3OH)(OH)6·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.DL.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Zálesí (Zalesie), Javorník (Jauernig), Olomouc Region, Moravia (Mähren; Maehren), Czech Republic

Philipsburgite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn)6(AsO4,PO4)2(OH)6·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Black Pine Mine (Combination Mine; Black Pine tailings; Black Pine dump), Black Pine Ridge, John Long Mts, Philipsburg District (Flint Creek District), Granite Co., Montana, USA

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