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Amethyst & Goethite

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Amethyst & Goethite

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Description
Locality: 
Royal Restormel Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 11 × 6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
632.00gr
Description

A large and heavy specimen of shiny metallic black goethite with three vugs lined with pale euhedral amethyst crystals, some are included with tiny goethite sprays.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Amethyst

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Purple

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

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