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Goethite Var Glaskopf

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Goethite Var Glaskopf

ex Charles Ottley Groom-Napier (M&M)

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Description
Locality: 
Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.4 × 4.2 × 3 cm
Description

A german old timer miniature from the 19th century, consisting of irregular masses of botryoidal limonite (glaskopf) with iridescent surface. From the Charles Ottley Groom-Napier (M&M) collection, a fraudster who pretended to be Prince of Mantua and Montferrat. Nice story behing this, read it at the label archive of www.mineralogicalrecord.com

Locality is unknown except Germany.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Goethite

Formula: 
α-Fe3+O(OH)
Strunz: 
4.00.
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Hollertszug Mine (Hollerter Zug Mine), Dermbach, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Glaskopf

Variety Of: 

Goethite

Formula: 
α-Fe3+O(OH)
Strunz: 
4.00.
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5

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