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Azurite Malachite & Cerussite

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Azurite Malachite & Cerussite

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Description
Locality: 
British Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4 × 3.5 cm
Description

A mass of silvery white cerussite crystals, highly twinned and intergrown with velvety malachite lining voids, small dark blue azurite crystals.

Associated are isolated crystal and clusters of smithsonite crystals, anglesite, pale orange spessartine and isolated pale yellow chlorargyrite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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...

Malachite

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

Cerussite

Formula: 
PbCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy
Earthstones Australia

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