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Conichalcite

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Description
Locality: 
Dome Rock Copper Mine, Boolcoomatta Reserve, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.7 × 4.3 × 1.6 cm
Description

This colourful copper arsenate occurs here as lime green botryoidal conichalcite on matrix.

The Dome Rock mine lies in the remote arid outback near Broken Hill and specimens once plentiful on the dumps are now very scarce.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Conichalcite

Formula: 
CaCu(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Hinojosa del Duque, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
Gondwana Minerals