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Torbernite

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Torbernite

Classic Locality
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Old Gunnislake Mine, Calstock, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 0.5 × 0.7 cm
Description

Two small sample of torbernite on matrix from a classic Cornish locality, on the old label is write only Callington that is the district, I suppose that the complete locality is the well-known mine of Old Gunnislake.

 

Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Torbernite

Formula: 
Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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