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Atacamite

atacamite

Cu2Cl(OH)3

Atacamite - TUC115-222 - Moonta mines - Australia Mineral Specimen

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Overview

Atacamite is a copper halide mineral: a copper(II) chloride hydroxide with formula Cu2Cl(OH)3. It was first described from deposits in the Atacama Desert of Chile in 1802 by Dmitri Alekseyevich Golitsyn. The Atacama Desert is also the namesake of the mineral.

Scientific references

  1. Atacamite — Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q409775 Link
  2. Atacamite — Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacamite Link