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Azurite

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Azurite

old label with the date from 20.11.1976
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attica, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 6 × 4 cm
Weight: 
227.00gr
Description

Nice large specimen with intensive blue azurite crystals, which have amazing lustre. The paragenese are calcite, malachite and cuproadamite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Azurite

Formula: 
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
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