Kaolinite, Goonbarrow China Clay Pit, Cornwall

“Pig’s Eggs” are a pseudomorph of fine-grained muscovite (“sericite”) with kaolinite (and minor quartz, biotite, etc.) after orthoclase, found in kaolinised granite such as that found at Goonbarrow.

0496 Kaolinite, Goonbarrow China Clay Pit, Bugle, Treverbyn, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK.