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Caledonite

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Caledonite

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Description
Locality: 
Last Chance Mine, Mount Scowden, Mono County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.4 × 0.4 × 0.2 cm
Description

Nice specimen of caledonite in well formed crystals. The curiosity of this sample is that one, and only one, crystal of caledonite in the specimen is not blue but bluish green as it can be seen in the photos, which is very unusual.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Caledonite

Formula: 
Pb5Cu2(SO4)3(CO3)(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BC.50
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Strathclyde (Lanarkshire), Scotland, UK

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