Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Scorodite

Views:
Watches:
PCZ644622

Scorodite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Hemerdon Bal Open Working, Plympton, Devon, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.8 × 2 cm
Description

A lovely scorodite specimen with sharp blue crystals in cavities. The crystals contrast nicely with an unidentified mineral lining the cavities.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Scorodite

Formula: 
Fe3+AsO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Stamm Asser Mine, Graul, Langenberg, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Peter Crozier Minerals