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Connellite & Brochantite

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Connellite & Brochantite

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Description
Locality: 
Sitio do Cobre Mine, Vila Velha de Ródão, Castelo Branco District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm
Description

Several blue connellite 'urchins' on a 'bed' of green brochantite.

Collected: 
2021
Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Connellite

Formula: 
Cu19(SO4)(OH)32Cl4·3H2O
Strunz: 
3.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Wheal Providence, Providence Mines, Carbis Bay, St Ives, St Ives District, Cornwall, England, UK

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...