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Cosalite

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Description
Locality: 
Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2 × 1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Description

Fibres of cosalite in quartz, personally collected underground in Carrock mine shortly after the mine closed in the early 1980's.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cosalite

Formula: 
Pb2Bi2S5
Strunz: 
2.JB.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Colour: 
Grey
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Cosalá Mine, Cosalá, Mun. de Cosalá, Sinaloa, Mexico
Cumbrian Minerals