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Azurite

Ex coll. Burger (CH)
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Description
Locality: 
Schönbrunn, Oelsnitz, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 3 × 1.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Weight: 
12.00gr
Description

Miniature plate consisting of a few azurite spheroids of platy crystals nicely perched on pale hazel color matrix and partially embedded into a creamy white mineral (gibbsite?).
Quite good from the are, this is pre-1950s material, from the former Burger collection (CH), relabelled in modern times.

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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