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Metazeunerite

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Metazeunerite

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Description
Locality: 
Wheal Edward, St Just, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 5 × 4 cm
Description

Wonderful old time specimen displaying cavities lined with crystalline apple green metazeunerite with other secondary's in iron rich matrix.

From the Col. Williams collection, No. 249. Bissoe Assay Office.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metazeunerite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.10
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Walpurgis Flacher vein, Weißer Hirsch Mine (Shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany