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Cornwallite & Azurite

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Cornwallite & Azurite

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Description
Locality: 
La Atalaya Prospect, Pastrana, Mazarrón, Murcia, Spain
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 3.2 × 1.5 cm
Description

Intensive green botryoidal cornwallite together with azurite crystals. They show a fantastic contrast. Some ofo azurite rosetten are overgrow with cornwallite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cornwallite

Formula: 
Cu5(AsO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Wheal Gorland, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), Gwennap, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

Azurite

Formula: 
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Chessy copper mines, Chessy-les-Mines, Le Bois d'Oingt, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France...