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Pigotite

Rare Mineral

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Locality: 
Porth Chapel, St Levan, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1 × 0.7 cm
Description

Outstanding orange brown crystal aggregates of the extremely rare organoaluminium mineral pigotite (Al4C6H5O10 · 13H2O (?)) from United Kingdom.

Pigotite is an aluminium-bearing organic compound, said to be formed by the action of wet vegetation on granite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pigotite

Formula: 
Al4C6H5O10 · 13H2O (?)
Strunz: 
10.AC.15

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