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Langite

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Description
Locality: 
Bedford United Mine, Gulworthy, Devon, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 6 × 3.5 cm
Description

Crystal sprays of blue langite to 3 mm infilling cavitys in iron rich quartz matrix.

Collected underground at Adit levelin the 1980's

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Langite

Formula: 
Cu4(SO4)(OH)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Fowey Consols (incl. Wheal Treasure; Wheal Fortune; Wheal Chance), Tywardreath, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK