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Langite

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Description
Locality: 
Bedford United Mine, Gulworthy, Devon, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
4 × 7 × 0.8 cm
Description

A thin matrix of limonite partly covered on both sides with crystalline langite and minor brochantite.

Collected underground on the Marquis Lode in the early 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