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Rosasite & Malachite

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Rosasite & Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 9.2 × 4.6 cm
Weight: 
122.00gr
Description

Nice specimen from Mexico with an aesthetic association of rosasite in beautiful and intense bluish green crystals reunited in botryoidal aggregates and malachite in a myriad of tufts of acicular crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rosasite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn)2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Rosas Mine, Narcao, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy

Malachite

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

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