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Bassetite

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Bassetite

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Description
Locality: 
Wheal Bassett, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.1 × 0.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small matrix specimen with some nice clusters of bassettite crystals in small cavities from the type locality. A very good sample of the mineral from the original find. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bassetite

Formula: 
Fe2+(UO2)2(PO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Wheal Basset, Basset Mines, Carn Brea, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK
Isostructural with: 
Autunite
Nováčekite-II
Saléeite

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