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Corkite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Serra da Mina Mine, Cercal, Santiago do Cacém, Setúbal District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 4 × 3 cm
Description

This is a extremely rich and outstanding corkite specimen with hundreds of lustrous brown corkite crystals all over the specimen.

Many of the corkite crystals show beautiful phantom.

Very good specimen. Collected 2011

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