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Azurite Malachite & Quartz

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Azurite Malachite & Quartz

Joseph Canova
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Description
Locality: 
Grand Mont, Beaufort, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 5 × 3.8 cm
Weight: 
175.00gr
Description

Acicular blue azurite with green malachite balls partially coating some fine quartz stained by iron oxides. Very atypical alpine material on a chalcopyrite-quartz vein.

Joseph Canova's discovery, founder of the famous Bourg d'Oisans museum.

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...

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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