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Malachite

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Malachite

Ted Johnson and George Elling collection
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Description
Locality: 
Passaic Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.7 × 2.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with a vug hosting an extremely nice spray of malachite crystals from Sterling Hill! Malachite rarely forms more than small radial balls here and this sample hosts some thick needles in a transparent, lustrous spray in a vug in magnetite ore from the Passaic Pit. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Malachite

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

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