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Kinoite

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Description
Locality: 
ASARCO Claims, Santa Rita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 1.9 × 2 cm
Description

Beautiful blue crystals of kinoite in drill core, from the type locality for kinoite- drill cores taken by Asarco in the Santa Rita Mountains to the south of Tucson.   The curved edge of the drill core can be seen on the specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kinoite

Formula: 
Ca2Cu2(H2O)2[Si3O10]
Strunz: 
9.BH.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Santa Rita Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA

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