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Aurichalcite With Hemimorphite

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Aurichalcite With Hemimorphite

Former collection Lehmann (CH)
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.7 × 1.1 cm
Weight: 
12.00gr
Description

Rich thumbnail specimen featuring pale limonite layers completely filled with pale blue aurichalcite crystals, quite sharp and well developed. Aggregated in diverging sprays, they do often lay on tabular crystals of colorless, lustrous hemimorphite, giving locally a very nice color contrast.

Nice and representatitve for the locality. Ex coll. Lehmann (CH).

Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aurichalcite

Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Loktevskoye Mine (Loktevskii Mine), Upper Loktevka River, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia

Hemimorphite

Formula: 
Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BD.10
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Băiţa Mining District (Baita Bihor; Rézbánya), Nucet, Bihor Co., Romania

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