Item talk:Q162236
From geokb
Mindat Short Description
A secondary mineral in copper and zinc deposits, aurichalcite is typically found as blue or green crusts or mats of tiny acicular crystals, often as feathery, tufted, druzes; more rarely it is found as columnar crystal aggregates or crusts of either la...
Geoscience Ontology Status Notes
Boettger T (1839) Chemische untersuchung des aurichalcits, eines neuen kupfererzes vom Altai, Annalen der Physik und Chemie 48, 495-500
IMA Formula (from Mindat)
(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)
Zn2+5(CO3)2(OH)6
