moolooite
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Moolooite is a rare blue-green mineral with the formula Cu(C2O4)·n(H2O) (n<1) (copper(II) oxalate hydrate). It was discovered in Bunbury Well, Mooloo Downs station, Murchison, Western Australia in 1986. It has an orthorhombic crystalline structure, and is formed by the interaction of bird guano with weathering copper sulfides.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Moolooite
- Mineral.image
- Moolooite-91983.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Blue massive moolooite (field of view 12 mm)
- Mineral.category
- Oxalate mineral
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Moo
- Mineral.strunz
- 10.AB.15
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pnnm
- Mineral.color
- green
- Mineral.gravity
- 3.43 (calculated)
- Mineral.density
- 2.6
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Moolooite-91983.jpg
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- Commons category
- Moolooite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 10.AB.15
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 10.AB.15
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Moo
- chemical formula
- Cu(C₂O₄)·nH₂O
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Moolooite is a rare blue-green mineral with the formula Cu(C2O4)·n(H2O) (n<1) (copper(II) oxalate hydrate). It was discovered in Bunbury Well, Mooloo Downs station, Murchison, Western Australia in 1986. It has an orthorhombic crystalline structure, and is formed by the interaction of bird guano with weathering copper sulfides.
A second occurrence is reported from the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines silver mining district of Vosges Mountains, France.