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Chrysocolla

Pseudomorph

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Description
Locality: 
Eagle Eye Mine, New Water District, La Paz County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 2.8 × 2.1 cm
Weight: 
24.00gr
Description

Very interesting group of sky blue crusts and acicular crystals that I think will be pseudomorphic, perhaps after another green mineral that I have not identified, but there are some traces present in the sample.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chrysocolla

Formula: 
Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4·nH2O (x < 1)
Strunz: 
9.ED.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5

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