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Chloroxiphite

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Description
Locality: 
Merehead Quarry (Torr Works), East Cranmore, Somerset, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm
Description

Green crystals of chloroxiphite a very rare mineral on a matrix of mendipite and associated to blue diaboleite from the type locality.

Chloroxiphite is a Pb-Cu oxichloride.
 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chloroxiphite

Formula: 
Pb3CuO2Cl2(OH)2
Strunz: 
3.DB.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Higher Pitts Mine, Priddy, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, UK

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