Description: Wavellite and Variscite Pwll Du Head, Bishopston, Swansea, Wales, UK Wavellite, 6-10mm diameter. Variscite balls 0.5mm Rich, inter-grown, radiating, acicular lime-green crystals of wavellite, 6-10mm diameter, on and inter-grown with 0.5mm balls of cream to translucent greyish variscite, in a thin joint on red iron-rich chert. Variscite identification confirmed at the National Museum of Wales, this was the first recorded occurrence of variscite in Wales. Collected July 1997.

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