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Chalcoalumite & Zeunerite

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Chalcoalumite & Zeunerite

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Grand View Mine, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 1.9 × 1.3 cm
Description

Nicely crystallized blue chalcoalumite with tiny green plates of zeunerite, a rarely seen association.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chalcoalumite

Formula: 
CuAl4(SO4)(OH)12·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.75
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Copper Queen Mine (Halero Mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Zeunerite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Walpurgis Flacher vein, Weißer Hirsch Mine (Shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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