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Spangolite & Cyanotrichite

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Spangolite & Cyanotrichite

Ex Al Kidwell collection

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Description
Locality: 
Maid of Sunshine Mine, Turquoise District, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.3 × 3.5 cm
Description

A beautiful specimen from the Maid of Sunshine Mine with a good coverage of small lustrous green spangolite crystals and blue acicular cyanotrichite crystals. Associated are also dark blue azurite crystals and some malachite.
Beautiful under magnification.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Spangolite

Formula: 
Cu6Al(SO4)(OH)12Cl·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0

Cyanotrichite

Formula: 
Cu4Al2(SO4)(OH)12·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.DE.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Moldova Nouă (Neumoldowa), Moldova Nouă-Sasca Cu-Mo ore field, Banat Mts, Caraş-Severin Co., Romania
Cartils Minerals

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