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Malachite

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Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Glücksrad Mine, Oberschulenberg, Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 7.5 × 5 cm
Description

This specimen is from a well known ancient lead and zinc mine, abandoned in 1931. Malachite crystals are of nice dark green color and have formed inside hollow casts of an unknown dissolved mineral. Nowadays collecting of minerals is strictly prohibited.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Malachite

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