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Brochantite

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Description
Locality: 
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 3.6 × 1.8 cm
Description

A wonderful sample of brochantite - it developed sharp, sparkling intense green crystals attractively set on a small snowy white matrix. Contrast is very beautiful and the assemble could not be more aesthetic!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Brochantite

Formula: 
Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BB.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Mednorudyanskoye Cu Deposit, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...