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Malachite With Baryte

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Malachite With Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Mavrolakkas, Kastro Valley, Limenaria, Thasos, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.5 × 10 × 6.5 cm
Weight: 
582.00gr
Description

Attractive sample of +0.5 Kg featuring thousands of fibrous green malachite needles, that richly cover de geodes of a reddish-brown iron rich matrix. Numerous white and transparent tabular crystals of baryte, and some calcites, with good transparency and lustre, are also present, adding a special character of this piece from Mavrolakkos, a rare locality in collections.

Found in 2017 by Willy Vanderwaal.

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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

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

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