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Azurite

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Description
Locality: 
Chessy-les-Mines, Villefranche, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

Floater aggregate of sharp azurite crystals of intense blue colour, with well-defined faces and curved edges, and with some inclusions of white sand fragments in the crystals, that are characteristic for this, the type locality.

Ex Roger Leemans specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Azurite

Formula: 
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Chessy copper mines, Chessy-les-Mines, Le Bois d'Oingt, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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