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Kapellasite

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Description
Locality: 
Sounion Mine #19, Sounion, Lavrion District, Attica, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.3 × 0.7 cm
Description

Bright blue kapellasite with gordaite and an atacamite group mineral from the Sounion 19 mine, Lavrion, Greece.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kapellasite

Formula: 
Cu3Zn(OH)6Cl2
Strunz: 
3.DA.10c
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Sounion Mine No. 19 ("Chloridstollen"), Sounion Mines, Sounion area, Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece...