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Bayldonite

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Description
Locality: 
Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4 × 5 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Description

A well crystallised specimen of bayldonite with cerussite and pyromorphite which has a thin coating of bayldonite. Matrix is quartz with minor limonite.

Collected underground in August 1989 from a stope off Daws Shaft.

Wonderful under a lens.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bayldonite

Formula: 
PbCu3(AsO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
8.BH.45
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Mount's Bay District, Cornwall, England, UK...