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Mimetite Malachite & Azurite

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Mimetite Malachite & Azurite

Collected by John & Robert Lawson - collected 1996
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Tynagh Mine, Killimor, County Galway, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 5.7 × 3.5 cm
Weight: 
151.00gr
Description

A fine Tynagh Mine example of white baryte matrix with green botryoidal malachite and deep blue azurite crystals. The specimen also has one of the nicest accumulations of apple green mimetite crystals I have so far seen from this locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mimetite

Formula: 
Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Treue Freundschaft Mine, Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Azurite

Formula: 
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Chessy copper mines, Chessy-les-Mines, Le Bois d'Oingt, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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