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Connellite

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Description
Locality: 
Perran Great St George Mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 7 × 1.5 cm
Description

A flow of connellite made up of several thin layers of of fibrous crystals, amongst these are many small cavities lined with crystalline aggregates and tufts of connellite and malachite. Minor quartz, slate matrix.

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