Detailed information
Dimensions
43 x 42 x 10
mm
Locality
Geevor Mine Pendeen, St Just Cornwall, England
Condition
No recorded repairs
A miniature-sized plate of slightly weathered Land’s End granite with a 3.5 x 2.0 cm area densely coated with bright turquoise micro-crystals of Langite. A rich example of this copper sulphate mineral and from one of its co-type localities at Geevor mine at Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England; the other co-type locality being Fowey Consols, northwest of St. Austell, Cornwall. The specimen comes with a named precious collector’s label and a Roughgems Ltd. label of Chancery Lane, London.
