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Mendipite & Chloroxiphite

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Mendipite & Chloroxiphite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Merehead Quarry (Torr Works), East Cranmore, Somerset, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 2 × 1.4 cm
Description

Green crystals of the rare mineral chloroxiphite associated to white crystals of mendipite from the type locality for mendipite.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mendipite

Formula: 
Pb3Cl2O2
Strunz: 
3.DC.70
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Churchill, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, UK

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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