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Conichalcite

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Carisa Mine, Tintic, Juab County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.6 × 2.3 cm
Description

Apple green coverages of conichalcite on matrix.

Ex. Ennio Contarini (IT) #5151.

The specimen has an old original label from the “Ward's Natural Science Rochester NY”, from the active mining period, dated back around 1915-1925 (according to Wilson, W.E (2019): “Mineralogical Record Biographical Archive at Mineralogical Record”).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Conichalcite

Formula: 
CaCu(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Hinojosa del Duque, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain

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