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Turquoise

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Description
Locality: 
Bunny Mine, Stenalees, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.7 × 7.5 × 5.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large, rich sample with dozens of vugs hosting coatings and crystal groups of turquoise var. rashleighite with needles of a tourmaline group mineral from this classic English locality. Comes with two old labels from Kristalle and the R. F. Parkinson collections. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Turquoise

Formula: 
Cu(Al,Fe3+)6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.15
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

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