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Campylite

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Description
Locality: 
Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.6 × 7 × 6 cm
Weight: 
306.00gr
Description

Shiny orange-brown Mimetite var. Campylite from Dry Gill Mine.

The specimen demonstrates the locally unique high quality and big sized crystals.

It is obviously an old find from the mid-19th century, because for sure the finest mimetite specimens were collected at this time.

Furthermore the piece originates from a very old collection from Vienna dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection go back to Univ.Prof. Dr. Rechinger (1866-1952) - an Assistant in the Natural History Museum Vienna. After that, the collection was kept and expanded by his son, Karl Heinz Rechinger (1906-1998) who was also the director of the botanical department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna.

Unfortunately, the typical old label from this collection is lost.

However, a part of the old seller's information, from "Mineralienkontor Julius Böhm" which was closed before World War II, has survived, further corroborating the story of the find's origin in the 19th century.

 

 

 

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

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