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Aurichalcite

ex Charles Ottley Groom-Napier (M&M, UK)
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Locality: 
Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 3 × 2 cm
Description

An old time specimen (mid to late 1800s, around 1870 or so) with a label of famous and notorious Charles Ottley Groom-Napier (to learn about his biography check the biographical archive at the mineralogical record website). A vein type matrix consisting of fluorite and carbonate hosts a pale blueish green ball of aurichalcite - a small label is glued on the specimen. The small accompanying label from M&M museum assigns the specimen to Matlock, Derby.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aurichalcite

Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Loktevskoye Mine (Loktevskii Mine), Upper Loktevka River, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia

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