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Chloroxiphite Diaboleite & Mendipite

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Chloroxiphite Diaboleite & Mendipite

Ex Richard W. Barstow
Type Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Higher Pitts Mine, Priddy, Mendip, Somerset, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.2 × 1.7 cm
Description

A rare combination of two type locality minerals, chloroxiphite and diaboleite, in a solid mass of white to lilac colored columnar aggregates of Mendipite. Ex Richard W. Barstow specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Diaboleite

Formula: 
Pb2CuCl2(OH)4
Strunz: 
3.DB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Blue
Streak: 
Blue
Type Locality: 
Higher Pitts Mine, Priddy, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, UK

Mendipite

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