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Corkite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Cercal, Santiago do Cacém, Setúbal District, Portugal
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 6 × 4.5 cm
Description

This is on of the richest and largest specimen from the complete find in 2009.

Thousands of brown and pseudocubic corkite crystals all over the specimen.

Beautiful !

# 40

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Corkite

Formula: 
PbFe3(PO4)(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
8.BL.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Glandore Mine (Aghatubrid Mine; Glendore Mine), Glandore, Co. Cork, Ireland