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Cuprorivaite

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Cuprorivaite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Wheal Edward, St Just, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.4 × 0.6 cm
Description

grass green crystal aggregates of the rare mineral cuprorivaite from Cornwall.

It seems that cuprorivaite from this locality is grass green, not blue.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprorivaite

Formula: 
CaCu[Si4O10]
Strunz: 
9.EA.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Colour: 
Blue
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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