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Abhurite

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Description
Locality: 
St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Yellow abhurite crystals in a tin nodule found in July 1885 in the wreck of the "SS Cherful"

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Abhurite

Formula: 
Sn21Cl16(OH)14O6
Strunz: 
3.DA.30
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sharm Abhur Cove, Jiddah (Jeddah), Mintaqah Makkah, Saudi Arabia