Call number:
C17
Classification:
Carbonates
Minerals from the Lavrion Mines
Minerals from the Lavrion Mines
Name:
Αζουρίτης
Translated title:
Azurite
Place of origin:
Kamareza / Lavrion, Greece
Depositional environment:
Oxidation zone of a base metal rich, carbonate replacement mineralization
Description:
Spheroidal azurite with calcite. Supergene oxidation of the primary copper-bearing mineralization, results to the formation of the secondary copper carbonates azurite-cuprite-malachite.
Chemical formula:
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Crystal system:
Monoclinic
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