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Malachite & Azurite

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Malachite & Azurite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Hope Copper Mine, Mount Hope, Blaxland County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5 × 3.5 cm
Description

A vein of blocky azurite crystals partly altered to chrysocolla is surrounded with large radial sprays of malachite and small botyroidal masses of malachite. this is an oldtime specimen from the mining period between 1890 and 1918.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Azurite

Formula: 
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Chessy copper mines, Chessy-les-Mines, Le Bois d'Oingt, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France...
Earthstones Australia

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