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Scorodite

Ex. Geoff Lane collection.

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Description
Locality: 
Wheal Muttrall, St Day, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4 × 3 cm
Description

Nice pale blue scorodite crystals on matrix collected around the Wheal Muttrall shaft, Wheal Gorland,  by Geoff Lane while on a field trip with Dick Barstow in the late 60's. Ex. Geoff Lane collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Scorodite

Formula: 
Fe3+AsO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Stamm Asser Mine, Graul, Langenberg, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Peter Crozier Minerals