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Atacamite

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Description
Locality: 
La Farola Mine, Cerro Pintado, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.3 × 6.2 × 2.7 cm
Description

This beautiful and also typical locality specimen features numerous spherical sprays of sharp and highly lustrous crystals of Atacamite. They are transparent as well and showing a fine colourzoning from dark to medium green. With magnification you easily see, how well f´defined and superb terminated are the crystals. The whole specimen is partially covered with another species, probably Pseudomalachite, but that fact isn´t proved. In any case a very good specimen, way better than most of the known stuff.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Atacamite

Formula: 
Cu2(OH)3Cl
Strunz: 
3.DA.10a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Atacama Region, Chile
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