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Linarite Devilline & Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Berta, El Papiol, Vallès Occidental, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Description

Very aesthetic group of tabular linarite crystals, with this intense color, brilliance and transparence. A smithsonite brown crystal has growth on one of them. Accompanied by nice blue tabular devilline aggregates and needle like aggregates of light green malachite. This quarry has been restored and collect minerals is forbidden.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Linarite

Formula: 
PbCu(SO4)(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.BC.65
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Linares, Linares-La Carolina District, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain

Devilline

Formula: 
CaCu4(SO4)2(OH)6·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Cornwall, England, UK

Malachite

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