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Pseudomalachite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Rainer Area, Podlipa, Ľubietová, Banská Bystrica County, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 1.7 × 1.8 cm
Description

Beautiful and sculptural thumbnail specimen of intense green, botryoidal Pseudomalachite on matrix from classic locality from area mined for copper since the Bronze Age. Comes in orginal box from J. Hyršl.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

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