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Corkite & Goethite

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Corkite & Goethite

Collected by John & Robert Lawson
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Description
Locality: 
Glandore Mine, Glandore, County Cork, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 3 × 2.8 cm
Weight: 
34.00gr
Description

Goethite matrix with cavities lined with clusters of olive green coloured cubic corkite crystals from a very limited recent find at the species Type Locality. LC

The specimen will be supplied boxed and fully labelled.

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

Goethite

Formula: 
α-Fe3+O(OH)
Strunz: 
4.00.
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Hollertszug Mine (Hollerter Zug Mine), Dermbach, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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