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Aurichalcite With Gypsum

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Aurichalcite With Gypsum

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Description
Locality: 
Ramsbeck, Bestwig, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.4 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm
Description

Lots of beautiful aurichalcite sprays with well defined blue pastel-coloured crystals in combination with colourless gypsum.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aurichalcite

Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Loktevskoye Mine (Loktevskii Mine), Upper Loktevka River, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia

Gypsum

Formula: 
CaSO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.CD.40
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
White.