Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Cuprocopiapite

Views:
Watches:
JYJ688406

Cuprocopiapite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Cerro Mejillones, Mejillones Peninsula, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.2 × 1.8 cm
Description

Rare greenish (SEM-EDS conf.) cuprocopiapite with orange sideronatrite and natrojarosite. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprocopiapite

Formula: 
CuFe4(SO4)6(OH)2·20H2O
Strunz: 
7.DB.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile