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Azurite & Cerussite

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Azurite & Cerussite

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Description
Locality: 
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 4.7 × 2.4 cm
Description

A beautiful old time Broken Hill azurite, with blocky crystals sitting on a bed of teardrop smithsonite and sharply contrasted by terminated white cerussite. Additionally there are a number of small cuprite crystals that have been covered by and or pseudomorphite by malachite. there is no sign of the azurite altering to malachite with the crystals retaining excellent luster and deep royal blue colour with good translucency 

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...

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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