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Cyanotrichite

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Cyanotrichite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Oxide Mine, Mount Gordon, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 4.8 × 3.3 cm
Description

The main display face of this oldtime specimen exhibits a masses of small intense light blue balls of cyanotrichtite.

From Australian Lapidary Supplies in Sydney, was packed away in the mid 1970's. Extremely difficult material to obtain.

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
Earthstones Australia

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