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Connellite & Juanitaite

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Connellite & Juanitaite

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Description
Locality: 
Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill, Tooele County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.9 × 3.4 × 1.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with a fracture surface that is lined with hundreds of tiny, doubly terminated hexagonal barrels of connellite with minor juanitaite and tyrolite. Collected by Martin Jensen. Rich!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Connellite

Formula: 
Cu19(SO4)(OH)32Cl4·3H2O
Strunz: 
3.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Wheal Providence, Providence Mines, Carbis Bay, St Ives, St Ives District, Cornwall, England, UK

Juanitaite

Formula: 
Bi(Cu,Ca,Fe)10(AsO4)4(OH)11·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DE.40
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Gold Hill Mine (Western Utah Mine), Gold Hill, Gold Hill District (Clifton District), Deep Creek Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USA

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