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Tyrolite Clinoatacamite & Yakhontovite

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Tyrolite Clinoatacamite & Yakhontovite

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Description
Locality: 
La Amorosa Mine, Villahermosa del Rio, Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 6 × 3 cm
Description

Tirolite crystals partially covered with  green clinoatacamite with minor dark brown yakhontovite over a dolomite matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tyrolite

Formula: 
Ca2Cu9(AsO4)4(CO3)(OH)8·11H2O
Strunz: 
8.DM.10
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Falkenstein, Falkenstein District, Schwaz, Brixlegg - Schwaz area, Inn valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria

Clinoatacamite

Formula: 
Cu2(OH)3Cl
Strunz: 
3.DA.10b
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile

Yakhontovite

Formula: 
(Ca,Na)0.5(Cu,Fe,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2·3H2O
Strunz: 
9.EC.40
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Pridorozhnoye Sn deposit, Komsomolski ore District, Khabarovskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia

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