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Azurite & Malachite

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Azurite & Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Piesky, Špania Dolina, Banská Bystrica County, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 3.3 × 1.6 cm
Description

Highly lustrous, rich azure-blue rosettes in clusters are very aesthetically placed on green malachite layer. This classic locality produced some of the best Slovak azurites and this is very fine and showy example.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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...

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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