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Connellite

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Description
Locality: 
Perran Great St George Mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 6 × 2.5 cm
Description

Specimen of fibrous connellite with minor malachite collected underground in 1985.

Superb under a lens.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Connellite

Formula: 
Cu19(SO4)(OH)32Cl4·3H2O
Strunz: 
3.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Wheal Providence, Providence Mines, Carbis Bay, St Ives, St Ives District, Cornwall, England, UK