Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Cyanotrichite & Brochantite

Views:
Watches:
PJM112183

Cyanotrichite & Brochantite

Ex J & D Leach Collection # 3203

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Mount Oxide Mine, Mount Gordon, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.7 × 2 cm
Description

Bright neon blue tuffed spheres of cyanotrichite interlinked forms a carpat across part of the display face. Whilst small isolated tuffed sprays of cyanotrichite with some green sprays of brochantite are scattered across the balance of this surface.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cyanotrichite

Formula: 
Cu4Al2(SO4)(OH)12·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.DE.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Moldova Nouă (Neumoldowa), Moldova Nouă-Sasca Cu-Mo ore field, Banat Mts, Caraş-Severin Co., Romania

Brochantite

Formula: 
Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BB.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Mednorudyanskoye Cu Deposit, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...
Earthstones Australia

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps

Seller's terms and conditions

All goods must be paid for prior to shipping, all bids are binding.