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Goethite

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Description
Locality: 
Royal Restormel Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 9 × 7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.00cm
Weight: 
746.00gr
Description

A rich and heavy specimen of banded goethite with minor smoky quartz which displays on three faces.  The goethite has formed as veinlets of deep mahogany brown rosettes enclosing areas of white sugary quartz, there is a cavity of mamillated goethite speckled with tiny smoky quartz with micro orange goethite inclusions. A clean attractive specimen which displays well.

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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

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