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Multiple photos availableTorbernite : Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·12H2O, Limonite : FeO(OH)·nH2O

Wheal Buller, Redruth, Troon-Lanner area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

5.5 x 3.3 x 1.9 cm. A rare English torbernite, and actually quite pretty, in that the lustrous, grass-green, platy crystals are isolated on a contrasting limonite matrix This is accompanied by an old, 1950s-era Schortmann’s label and was then in the Phil Scalisi Collection. Crystals measure to about 4 mm and there must be dozens of them. This is ...
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