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Azurite & Malachite

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Azurite & Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3 × 6.1 × 5.2 cm
Description

Bright almost electric blue azurite crystals to 0.8cm are scattered acrooss a light brown matrix partially coated with botyroidal malachite. This specimen is from Spring Creek Copper Mine which is now a defunct locality being incorporated in a water reserve.

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
Earthstones Australia

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