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Sengierite & Metatorbernite

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Sengierite & Metatorbernite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Cole Shaft, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.2 × 1.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with small patches of tiny, bright lime green sengierite crystals in matrix cavities with sprays of malachite and a very rare (for Bisbee) tabular metatorbernite crystal. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sengierite

Formula: 
Cu2(UO2)2(VO4)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
4.HB.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Luiswishi Mine, Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Metatorbernite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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