Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Bobkingite

Views:
Watches:
SKY507776

Bobkingite

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Cerro Minado Mines, Cuesta Alta, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.3 × 1 cm
Description

Well formed blue crystals of this extremely rare mineral bobkingite known from only 3 localities worldwide. By far, Cerro Minado has yielded the best crystals of bobkingite. For more info, please see the article describing the occurrence on Mineral Up 2010/1 (New Minerals from Cerro Minado), where the authours tell us they found the mineral once and only in a very limited area of the mine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bobkingite

Formula: 
Cu5Cl2(OH)8·2H2O
Strunz: 
3.DA.50
Hardness: 
3.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
Pale blue
Type Locality: 
New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton under Bardon, Leicestershire, England, UK

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps