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Erythrite & Langite

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Erythrite & Langite

Collected by John & Robert Lawson
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Description
Locality: 
Needles Eye, Solway Firth, Scotland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 6.6 × 3 cm
Weight: 
172.00gr
Description

An unusually large and exceptionally colourful specimen from this seldom offered Scottish locality with coatings of magenta erythrite and blue langite. Other unresearched species also likely present. LC ER2

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Erythrite

Formula: 
Co3(AsO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.40
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Daniel Mine (St. Daniel Mine), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Langite

Formula: 
Cu4(SO4)(OH)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Fowey Consols (incl. Wheal Treasure; Wheal Fortune; Wheal Chance), Tywardreath, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK

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