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Azurite With Malachite

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Azurite With Malachite

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Locality: 
Seabra, Bahia, Brazil
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.2 × 2.2 cm
Description

A superb cluster of vivid, peacock-blue and green, azurite and malachite crystals from early 1990´s.The largest ball-shaped aggregates like this one date to that find, though the locality has produced since larger plates of smaller crystals.The complete all-around specimen is highly unusual, in that the crystals are partially malachite and partially azurite, not one or the other. It is caught in the middle of pseudomorphing.

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...

Malachite

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

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