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Scorodite & Arthurite

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Scorodite & Arthurite

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Description
Locality: 
Hingston Down Consols, Calstock, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 7.2 × 2.5 cm
Weight: 
95.00gr
Description

Bright green arthurite on quartz crystals on granite matrix, which also hosts pale blue scorodite and a couple of tabular torbernites.

Requires magnification to appreciate fully.

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

Arthurite

Formula: 
CuFe3+2(AsO4)2(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hingston Down Consols, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Callington District, Cornwall, England, UK

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