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Carpholite from
Grains Gill, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:River Valley
Classification
Species:Carpholite
Formula:Mn2+Al2(Si2O6)(OH)4
Comments:Kingsbury reference. Kingsbury & Hartley (1957): "thin, fibrous-radiating aggregates in joints in white vein-quartz, specimens collected being derived almost certainly from the Emerson vein of the Carrock Wolfram Mine. In contrast to its more usual deep straw- or wax-yellow colour, the Grains Gill mineral is of a pale, almost cream yellow, and until the quartz is broken appears merely as a faint yellowish staining."
Habit:thin, fibrous, radiating aggregates
Colour:pale, almost cream yellow
Confirmation
Validity:Erroneously Reported
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Carpholite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Grains Gill, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2843
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2843:1
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Carpholite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘCarrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
References
[Specimen in the Natural History Museum, London]
Kingsbury, Arthur W. G., Hartley, J. (1957) Carpholite from Cumberland and Cornwall. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 31 (237). 502 doi:10.1180/minmag.1957.031.237.15
 
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