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Spangolite Clinoatacamite & Brochantite

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Spangolite Clinoatacamite & Brochantite

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Description
Locality: 
Golosina Mine, Cuevas del Almanzora, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2.2 × 2.1 cm
Description

Fantastic sample!!!

Lots of intense blue spangolite crystals with minute very light green malachite, spheroidal clinoatacamite and elongated brochantite crystals.

A true joy to be observed under the scope!

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

Spangolite

Formula: 
Cu6Al(SO4)(OH)12Cl·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0

Clinoatacamite

Formula: 
Cu2(OH)3Cl
Strunz: 
3.DA.10b
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile

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...