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Campylite & Baryte

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Campylite & Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

Large 2cm diameter orange and yellow campylite crystal on a matrix of baryte with another 1cm campylite crystal and several smaller ones, the barite with a sprinkling of black psilomelene.

From Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Campylite

Variety Of: 

Mimetite

Formula: 
Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Hardness: 
0.0

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Cumbrian Minerals