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Cuprian Austinite

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Cuprian Austinite

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Description
Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4.8 × 1.9 cm
Weight: 
39.00gr
Description

Rich specimen featuring tens of aggregates of green copper-bearing austinite (barthite) of intense vitreous lustre on a hard matrix, not the classic crumbly porous limonite.

Ex Lucien Jusgen specimen, who bought it at the Liege Mineral Show (Belgium), on November 13th/1976.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprian Austinite

Variety Of: 

Austinite

Formula: 
CaZn(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.35
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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