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Azurite

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Description
Locality: 
Schmitt Quarry, Altenmittlau, Spessart, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 4 × 4 cm
Description

This is an excellent specimen with many deep blue rosettes of azurite, typically perched on rhombohedral dolomite. The azurite-balls is made of many tabular sharp crystals. Also the azurite is high lustrous and the whole specimen is largely undamaged. A good specimen and just for your knowledge, good finds from this locale have long been passed.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Azurite

Formula: 
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Chessy copper mines, Chessy-les-Mines, Le Bois d'Oingt, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France...
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