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Cloncurryite & Gerhardtite

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Cloncurryite & Gerhardtite

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Description
Locality: 
Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.1 × 1.2 cm
Description

An extremely rich specimen of the rare copper vanadium phosphosite; cloncurryite. The display face of this specimen is covered with light turquoise blue densely packed tuffed groups of cloncurryite and has several deep blue crystals of gerhardite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cloncurryite

Formula: 
(Cu,VO)Al2(PO4)2(F,OH)2·4.5-5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.60
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry District, Mount Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia

Gerhardtite

Formula: 
Cu2(NO3)(OH)3
Strunz: 
5.NB.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
United Verde Mine (The Big Hole; Big Hole property; Hull Mine; Hopewell tunnel; Patented claim 3480; Patented claim 2812; Patented claims 3348), Jerome, Verde District, Black Hills (Black Hill Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
Earthstones Australia

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