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Pseudomalachite Libethenite & Cuproapatite

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Pseudomalachite Libethenite & Cuproapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Burra Burra Copper Mine, Burra, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.2 × 2.2 cm
Description

A plate covered with blue green botyroidal mounds of pseudomalachite and contrasted by dark green libethenite crystals and then scattered all about are small crystalline masses of turquoise blue cuproapatite , the copper rich variety of fluorapatite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pseudomalachite

Formula: 
Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Virneberg Mine (St Josephsberg Mine), Rheinbreitbach, Linz am Rhein, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Libethenite

Formula: 
Cu2(PO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Podlipa deposit, Ľubietová (Libetbánya; Libethen), Banská Bystrica Co., Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia

Cuproapatite

Variety Of: 

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Cu)5(PO4)3F
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
0.0
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