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Grandviewite - Sold
- Grand View mine
- Coconino County
- Arizona
- U.S.A.
- 4.2 by 3.2 by 2.2 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)
Grandviewite is a hydrous copper aluminum sulfate (Colchester et al., 2008). Grandviewite corresponds to unknown #5 listed in Leicht (1971) Minerals of the Grandview mine, Mineralogical Record, 2, 214-221. On this specimen, grandviewite forms turquoise blue botryoidal crusts in association with darker blue cyanotrichite, also another copper aluminum sulfate. Spots of green brochantite are also present.
