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Eriochalcite & Tolbachite

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Eriochalcite & Tolbachite

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Description
Locality: 
Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.3 × 0.3 × 0.2 cm
Description

Green crystals of eriochalcite associated to tolbachite from the type locality for this second mineral the Tolbachik volcano.

Associated minerals in the specimen are eucholorine and tenorite.

Sealed in a glass tube.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eriochalcite

Formula: 
CuCl2·2H2O
Strunz: 
3.BB.05
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Tolbachite

Formula: 
CuCl2
Strunz: 
3.AB.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
First scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

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