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Nantokite On Native Copper

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Nantokite On Native Copper

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Isa, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 3.6 × 3.2 cm
Description

An old time cluster of native copper crystals with an attractive reddish brown patina and an overgrowth of bluish green nantokite and deep green paratacamite. Collected on the 4 lvl at Mount Isa by George Stacy in the late 1970's

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nantokite

Formula: 
CuCl
Strunz: 
3.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Carmen Bajo Mine, Nantoko, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile

Copper

Formula: 
Cu
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Earthstones Australia

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