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Aurichalcite

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Locality: 
Mammoth - St Anthony Mine, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3 × 3 cm
Description

An excellent miniature size specimen of aurichalcite from Tiger.   These specimens are very rare for the locality, I have only seen 2 available in the past 15 years of the Tucson show.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aurichalcite

Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Loktevskoye Mine (Loktevskii Mine), Upper Loktevka River, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia

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