Childrenite from George and Charlotte Mine, England, UK

Help improve this record

No owner is registered for this specimen yet. If it's yours or you know more about it, you can add the owner, provenance, publications and other details.

Classic Cornish specimen, the front side of this matrix is covered by glistening micro crystals of brown childrenite. In great condition.Located near Tavistock in Devon, England, the George and Charlotte Mine is an eighteenth-century copper mine set in hydrothermally altered Devonian slate and volcanic rock cut by copper-bearing quartz veins. Operations extracted substantial quantities of chalcopyrite and pyrite during its primary working period. Today, the site forms a notable part of the area heritage tourist route, but it remains most famous among mineral collectors as the world premier type locality for producing the finest known specimens of childrenite, a hydrated iron aluminum phosphate mineral known for its lustrous brown micro-crystals.