SV2120TMB: Group of fine elongated Goethite crystals, very sharp and lustrous, in a matrix of ferruginous rock partially covered by crystalline aggregates of Hematite in the form of crusts, and disseminated Quartz crystals giving a color contrast with the oxides.
The specimen, an English classic from an iron mine in Cornwall which closed in 1883, comes from the old collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon.
Restormel Royal Iron Mine (Trinity Mine), Lostwithiel, St Austell District, Cornwall  England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.1 × 3 cm = 2.44” × 2.01” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.08” × 0.04”