Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Connellite is a very rare mineral species a hydrous copper chloro-sulfate Cu19[(OH)32SO4Cl4]·3H2O crystallizing in the hexagonal system. It occurs as tufts of very delicate acicular crystals of a fine blue color and is associated with other copper minerals of secondary origin such as cuprite and malachite. Its occurrence in Cornwall was noted by Philip Rashleigh in 1802 and it was first examined chemically by Arthur Connell in 1847.
