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Aurichalcite

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Aurichalcite

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Description
Locality: 
Hilarion Mine, Hilarion, Kamariza, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 4 × 2.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Weight: 
20.00gr
Description

Dozens of saturated sky blue tuffs of aurichalcite nicely populating a thick speck of gossan matrix. This is one of the best qualities of aurichalcite ever found in Lavrion, from an excellent find dated back to 2019. Quite photogenic.

The specimen has been hot glued on its base (plastic box) for better stability and transportation. 

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

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