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Aurichalcite

Usually found as a secondary mineral in copper and zinc deposits. It get's it's blue-green color from it's copper contents.
Locality
Colorado

Streak
Light Blue
Hardness
Formula
1-2
(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Habit
Typically in tufted divergent sprays or spherical aggregates, may be in thick crusts; rarely columnar, laminated or granular
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