Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Gerhardtite & Ramsbeckite

Views:
Watches:
SKY199767

Gerhardtite & Ramsbeckite

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Madonna di Fucinaia Slag Locality, Campiglia Marittima, Campigliese, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

Blue tabular gerhardtite crystal (photos 1 and 2) associated to gemmy greenish blue ramsbeckite (photos 4 and 6), deep red cuprite and acicular connellite (or cyanotrichite) (photo 5) in a very nice colorful micromount.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gerhardtite

Formula: 
Cu2(NO3)(OH)3
Strunz: 
5.NB.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
United Verde Mine (The Big Hole; Big Hole property; Hull Mine; Hopewell tunnel; Patented claim 3480; Patented claim 2812; Patented claims 3348), Jerome, Verde District, Black Hills (Black Hill Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

Ramsbeckite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn)15(SO4)4(OH)22·6H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.60
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Colour: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Bastenberg Mine, Ramsbeck, Meschede, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps