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Hematite Var Specularite

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Hematite Var Specularite

ex Peter Tye Collection #T077A

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Description
Locality: 
Florence Mine, Haile, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.4 × 9 × 5 cm
Description

The display face and rear of the specimen reveal excellent lustrous black lenticular crystals of specularite with virtually no bruising, together with a light scatter of saddle shaped dolomite crystals.  the underside is a mix of broken layers of haematite and small quartz crystals.

Ex Keswick Museum, 1974 according to the catalogue.  Copy of this entry will be supplied with the specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

Specularite

Variety Of: 

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Colour: 
Silvery

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