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Spangolite & Brochantite

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Spangolite & Brochantite

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Description
Locality: 
Blanchard Claims, Bingham, Socorro County, New Mexico, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.3 × 1.9 cm
Description

Superbly crystallized blue-green spangolite crystals perched on matrix and contrasting nicely with brochantite sprays. Excellent specimen for the species!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Spangolite

Formula: 
Cu6Al(SO4)(OH)12Cl·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0

Brochantite

Formula: 
Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BB.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Mednorudyanskoye Cu Deposit, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...
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