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Liroconite

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Liroconite

Dan Behnke collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Ting-Tang Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

ILLUSTRATED! You are bidding on a small sample with some nice, green-blue crystals of liroconite on matrix from the Ting Tang Mine, a much lesser known locality for the mineral. Obtained by Dan in Tuscon in 1998. Illustrated in Photo Atlas of Minerals (2007). Comes with Dan's original slide (scanned here) and index card. 

This sample is from the collection of Dan Behnke, long-time friend, micromounter and prodigious photographer. I am pleased to be able to offer selections from his large collection, many of which are illustrated specimens in Rocks & Minerals, The Mineralogiocal Record, Photo Atlas of Minerals and many other publications. All samples from his meticulously catalogued collection will come with his original index card with all notes, photography annotations and other pertinent information, as well as any slides Dan may have taken of the sample with publication notes and date the photo was made.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Liroconite

Formula: 
Cu2Al(AsO4)(OH)4·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DF.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Wheal Gorland, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), Gwennap, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

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