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Chenevixite

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Chenevixite

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Description
Locality: 
Patagonia District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1 × 0.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with some exceptional prismatic crystals of chenevixite lining vugs in rhyolite. This is the worlds best locality for this arsenate species. 

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What's on the rock

Chenevixite

Formula: 
Cu2Fe3+2(AsO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.DD.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Wheal Gorland, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), Gwennap, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

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