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MD-157379
Liroconite
Wheal Gorland, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), Gwennap area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK
Miniature, 3.8 x 3.3 x 1.9 cm
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A GORGEOUS, 3-dimensional miniature richly covered with lustrous, dark turquoise-blue liroconite crystals and aesthetically set in quartz-rich matrix from the famous Wheal Gorland Mine (Type Locality) of Cornwall. Liroconite is a Holy Grail species for Cornwall or English collectors, among the rarest ever found in beautiful crystals, and this is a good one that is a display specimen AS WELL AS a reference piece. Mined in the 1820s-1850s.