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Brochantite & Calcite & Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Christiana Mine, Kamariza, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attica, Greece
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 3.3 × 3 cm
Weight: 
40.20gr
Description

Here we have an excellent specimen of dark green brochantite on brick red cuprite from the famous copper cleft in the Christiana Mine, Laurion. Accompanied by tiny needle-like malachite and waterclear calcite.
Found in 1996

The weight given includes the acrylic base, the sizes refer to the mineral alone.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Brochantite

Formula: 
Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BB.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Mednorudyanskoye Cu Deposit, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Malachite

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

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