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| | MALACHITE (Copper Carbonate Hydroxide) |
 | | Uses: As mineral specimens, an important ore of copper, as an ornamental stone, a pigment and for jewelry. |
 | | Malachite is found with many rare copper silicates, halides, phosphates, sulfates and carbonates such as duftite, libethenite, aurichalcite, sphaerocobaltite, kolwezite, shattuckite, atacamite, chalcophyllite, antlerite, conichalcite, rosasite, chalcosiderite, clinoclase, brochantite, graemite, liroconite, mixite and cornetite, to name a few. |
 | | Pseudomalachite is a copper phosphate that has a massive crystal habit and color that are very similar to malachite's habit and color, although the two minerals have different structures. |
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