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Metahalloysite Atacamite & Pseudomalachite

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Metahalloysite Atacamite & Pseudomalachite

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Description
Locality: 
La Farola Mine, Cerro Pintado, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 3 × 1 cm
Description

Floater specimen, full of beige-white botryoidal metahalloysite, dark green, glossy atacamite crystals, botryoidal pseudomalachite and some blueish chrysocolla. All sides covered with minerals. I like the back with the free-standing, glossy atacamite crystals on a bed of metahalloysite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Atacamite

Formula: 
Cu2(OH)3Cl
Strunz: 
3.DA.10a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Atacama Region, Chile

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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