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Spangolite Caledonite & Brochantite

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Spangolite Caledonite & Brochantite

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Description
Locality: 
Blanchard Claims, Bingham, Socorro County, New Mexico, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.6 × 2.2 cm
Description

A specimen featuring emerald-green needles of brochantite with sea green hexagonal spangolite on fluorite cleavages and barite.

Hidden in one vug are several caledonite crystals mostly contacted but also some complete in a vug with some minor spangolite crystals.

 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Spangolite

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

Caledonite

Formula: 
Pb5Cu2(SO4)3(CO3)(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BC.50
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Strathclyde (Lanarkshire), Scotland, UK

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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