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Linarite

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Linarite

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Description
Locality: 
Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 1.8 × 1 cm
Description

A superb thumbnail specimen displaying a cavity in cerussite matrix lined with radiating linarite crystals with anglesite and balls of malachite coated with brochantite.

Collected underground at Daws Shaft in 1989.

Wonderful under a lens.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Linarite

Formula: 
PbCu(SO4)(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.BC.65
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Linares, Linares-La Carolina District, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain