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Linarite

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Description
Locality: 
Blanchard Claims, Bingham, Socorro County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
109.00gr
Description

Bright blue crystallized and highly lustrous pristine Linarite forms a continuous crust on a cubic crystal of Galenite. Accompanied by Quartz, Fluorite, tiny Malachite and Anglesite/Cerussite(?). The Galenite crystal looks damaged at the upper right corner, but it is not. It has about 1 cm edge length.

This is a great and very unusual Linarite matrix specimen from a very well known deposit. 

The stated weight includes the acrylic base.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Linarite

Formula: 
PbCu(SO4)(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.BC.65
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Linares, Linares-La Carolina District, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain