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Carbonatecyanotrichite Malachite & Fluorite

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Carbonatecyanotrichite Malachite & Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Qinglong Mine, Qinglong County, Guizhou Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 4 × 3.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Description

Group of thin needle like crystals of carbonatecyanotrichite forming aesthetic spherical aggregates. They show a delicate blue color and are disposed very aerial on a quartz matrix with some small cubic fluorite crystals and green globular malachite.

Collected: 
2009
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Carbonatecyanotrichite

Formula: 
Cu4Al2(CO3,SO4)(OH)12·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.DE.10
Hardness: 
2.0
Colour: 
Pale blue
Type Locality: 
Balasauskandyk V Deposit, Karatau Range, Southern Kazakhstan Province (Ongtüstik Qazaqstan Oblysy; Yuzhno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic