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Cuprian Smithsonite & Aurichalcite

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Cuprian Smithsonite & Aurichalcite

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Description
Locality: 
Mine #6, Agrileza, Sounion, Lavrion, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm
Description

Fine quality piece with excellent green smithsonite crystals that show good translucency, luster and color intensity. As a bonus, little blue aurichalcites are scattered on the contrasting green smithsonite. The back has a surprise with radiating aggregates of needle-like crystals of a mineral that I have not identified.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprian Smithsonite

Variety Of: 

Smithsonite

Formula: 
ZnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)CO3

Aurichalcite

Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Loktevskoye Mine (Loktevskii Mine), Upper Loktevka River, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia

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