shattuckite
Sign in to saveShattuckite is a copper silicate hydroxide mineral with formula Cu5(SiO3)4(OH)2. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic – dipyramidal crystal system and usually occurs in a granular massive form and also as fibrous acicular crystals. It is closely allied to plancheite in structure and appearance.
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Key facts
- Mineral.boxbgcolor
- 52b5c4
- Mineral.name
- Shattuckite
- Mineral.category
- Inosilicate
- Mineral.image
- Shattuckite-rosa20d.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.DB.40
- Mineral.formula
- Cu5(SiO3)4(OH)2
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Sha
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pcab
- Mineral.color
- Dark and light blue, turquoise
- Mineral.habit
- Commonly spherulitic aggregates of acicular crystals
- Mineral.cleavage
- perfect along [010] and [100]
- Mineral.fracture
- uneven
- Mineral.mohs
- 3.5
- Mineral.luster
- Dull to silky
- Mineral.refractive
- nα = 1.753, nβ = 1.782, nγ = 1.815
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- inosilicate
- Image
- Shattuckite-Malachite-188252.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.DB.40
- Commons category
- Shattuckite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.DB.40
- type locality (geology)
- Bisbee
- streak color
- blue
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Sha
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/D.04
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Shattuckite is a copper silicate hydroxide mineral with formula Cu5(SiO3)4(OH)2. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic – dipyramidal crystal system and usually occurs in a granular massive form and also as fibrous acicular crystals. It is closely allied to plancheite in structure and appearance.
Shattuckite is a relatively rare copper silicate mineral. It was first discovered in 1915 in the copper mines of Bisbee, Arizona, specifically the Shattuck Mine (hence the name). It is a secondary mineral that forms from the alteration of other secondary minerals. At the Shattuck Mine, it forms pseudomorphs after malachite. A pseudomorph is an atom by atom replacement of a crystal structure by another crystal structure, but with little alteration of the outward shape of the original crystal. It is sometimes used as a gemstone.
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