Home > Copper Minerals II – September 8 > MS1125 Botallackite
Botallackite - Sold
- Cligga Head
- Perranzabuloe
- Cornwall
- England
- United Kingdom
- 5.8 by 4.3 by 2.2 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)
Botallackite is a copper hydroxide chloride, sharing the same chemistry as atacamite and clinoatacamite. Church (1865) named the mineral for the type locality: Botallack mine in Cornwall. This is a rich specimen with emerald green botallackite crystals to 4 mm cementing breccia fragments. An exceptional specimen of this material, previously known only as microcrystals! This material came from a find in 2007, brought to Tucson by Ralph Sutcliffe and Simon Hildred.