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Redgillite & Anglesite

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Redgillite & Anglesite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Meadowfoot Smelter Slag Locality, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 0.7 cm
Description

Green crystals of the very rare mineral redgillite associated to anglesite.

It is not clear to me if anglesite is the yellow or the colorless crystal.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Redgillite

Formula: 
Cu6(SO4)(OH)10·H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.70
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Silver Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK

Anglesite

Formula: 
PbSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Parys Mountain Copper Mine, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom

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