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Atacamite

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Atacamite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 3.3 × 1.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

This is possibly the best atacamite specimen I had ever seen from the Iron Monarch Opencut, a specimen from the late 1970's with dark geen green atacamite crystals to 0.8 cm spraying into an open cavity and with a thin micaceous matrix. A fine atacamite from anywhere in the world. That is is from an iron ore deposit is even more amazing.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Atacamite

Formula: 
Cu2(OH)3Cl
Strunz: 
3.DA.10a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Atacama Region, Chile
Earthstones Australia

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