Mineralpedia Details for Veszelyite
Veszelyite
- Formula
- Cu2+3PO4(OH)3ยท2H2O
- Crystal System
- Monoclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Tabular, Equant Grains, Massive - Granular
- Cleavage
- Good, Good, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- blue green, green, dark blue
- Streak
- blue
- Class
- Monoclinic - Prismatic
- Hardness
- 3.5-4
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Veszelyite from Black Pine mine, Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana, United States
Deep, gemmy bluish green crystals of this rare phosphate. The largest crystal is 1cm in length. Aside all the crystals are hemispherical groups of Pseudomalachite from 3 to 4mm across. The specimen was collected by Chris van Laer.
Micro blue-green crystals to 2.5mm on Quartz matrix.
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Veszelyite from Laochang mine, Gejiu Co., Honghe, Yunnan Province, China
An extremely rich specimen of Veszelyite with hundreds of single 1mm crystals and clusters to 3mm. The crystals are well-defined and stunning.
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