paramelaconite

paramelaconite

[¦par·ə·mə′lak·ə‚nīt]
(mineralogy)
A black tetragonal mineral composed of cupric and cuprous oxides, occurring in pyramidal crystals.
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In the same small zone in the Cumbres lugar of the Ojuela mine which produced the claringbullite, a few specimens of tenorite pseudomoiphs after paramelaconite were found as microcrystals, as well as brochantite.
Denver Show 2009
In fact, Foote had originally acquired both of the two known paramelaconite specimens, had sold them both to Bement, and both later went to the American Museum; but the Museum subsequently traded one of them to the Smithsonian.
1997
The finest known examples of a number of supergene copper minerals were found at Bisbee: antlerite, bisbeeite, brochantite, chalcoalumite, claringbullite, conichalcite, crednerite, cuprite, delafossite, graemite, nantokite, paramelaconite, paratacamite, rosasite and spangolite.
FM-TGMS-MSA symposium on copper and copper minerals
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