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Spangolite & Brochantite

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Spangolite & Brochantite

Rare Mineral
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Mex-Tex Mine, Socorro County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.4 × 3.4 × 2.5 cm
Description

This is a very fine and extraordinary colourful specimen of intense deep mint-blue green rare spangolite accompanied by acicular green brochantite, a typical association for this classic locality near Bingham in New Mexico. The hexagonal, slightly barrel-shaped crystals of spangolite are highly lustrous, transparent and sharp edged. Most of them are very good defined. A rich with spangolite and brochantite covered specimen in splendid condidtion. Hard to gobtain such super specimens nowadays.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Spangolite

Formula: 
Cu6Al(SO4)(OH)12Cl·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0

Brochantite

Formula: 
Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BB.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Mednorudyanskoye Cu Deposit, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...
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