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Cornetite & Pseudomalachite

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Cornetite & Pseudomalachite

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Description
Locality: 
Carlow Castle Mine, Roebourne, Roebourne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 3.1 × 1 cm
Description

A very rich late of lustrous intense blue cornetite crystals with small botyroidal masses of blue green pseudomalachite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cornetite

Formula: 
Cu3(PO4)(OH)3
Strunz: 
8.BE.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
L'Etoile du Congo Mine (Star of the Congo Mine; Kalukuluku Mine), Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)...

Pseudomalachite

Formula: 
Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Virneberg Mine (St Josephsberg Mine), Rheinbreitbach, Linz am Rhein, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Earthstones Australia

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