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Glaukosphaerite

Year of discovery: 1974 (Kambalda mines, Australia), 1993 (Japan)

Locality list: A locality of glaukosphaerite

• (Cu,Ni)₂CO₃(OH)₂
• (Cu²⁺,Ni²⁺)₂[(OH)₂|CO₃]^4-

• Class: Rosasite group
• Class: Carbonate - Hydroxide

• (Cu,Ni) => Ni: Nullaginite
• (Cu,Ni) => Cu: Malachite
• (Cu,Ni) => Mg: Pokrovskite
• (Cu,Ni) => Fe: Chukanovite
• (Cu,Ni) => (Cu,Zn): Rosasite
• (Cu,Ni) => (Cu,Co): Kolwezite
• (Cu,Ni) => (Mg,Cu): Mcguinnessite

• Color: Green
• Luster: Vitreous
• Diaphaneity: Transparent-Translucent

• Cleavage: Good
• Hardness: 3-4
• Density: 3.8

• System: Monoclinic
• Group: 2/m, P2₁/a
• Lattice: a=9.3, b=11.9, c=3.1, β=91.0