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Bechererite

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Bechererite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

Many light blue crystals, thin, hexagonal tabular, in some places, covering the matrix, like a carpet. Together there are blue linarite crystals and minor green malachite. Rare.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bechererite

Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)6Zn2(SO4,HSiO4)2(OH)12
Strunz: 
7.DD.55
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tonopah-Belmont Mine (East Vulture Mine; Belmont-McNeil Mine; Economy Mining Co. Mine), Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA

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