Linarite, 5605


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Description

Relatively large bright blue tabular crystals of linarite with earthy green malachite and colorless massive quartz on a base of quartz rich matrix. There are also fine veinlets of blue and green throughout the rock.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Date
1804
Creator
Shepard, Charles Upham, 1804-1886
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Roughton Gill Mine, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists