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Bayldonite

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Bayldonite

Ex Eddy van der Meersche Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 3.9 × 3.6 cm
Description

A fine specimen with some vugs, richly covered with intense olive green bayldonite. This is a colourful Cornish classic in very good shape. Bayldonite was named in 1865 by Arthur Herbert Church in honor of English physician John Bayldon (1837-1872)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bayldonite

Formula: 
PbCu3(AsO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
8.BH.45
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Mount's Bay District, Cornwall, England, UK...
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