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Brochantite & Azurite

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Brochantite & Azurite

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Description
Locality: 
Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
5 × 10.8 × 7.7 cm
Weight: 
548.00gr
Description

Aesthetic specimen from Chile with a myriad of prismatic acicular sparkiling brochantite crystals of a beautiful blue-green color in association with azurite in small blue crystals. Crystals are present also on the back side of the piece

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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...

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...

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