Description: Cuprite, var chalcotrichite Fowey Consols, Tywardreath, St. Austell, Cornwall, England, UK Chalcotrichite with goethite in quartz, overall specimen 70x70mm. Ex Natural History Museum collection, purchased from mineral dealer Richard Talling at a cost of £1 10s in 1864

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