Some two years since the authors received from East Cornwall examples of a erystallised mineral presenting features dissimilar to those of any species previously known to them, but presumably referable to Dufrenite. The specimens obtained were from the central part of a narrow neck of "dead ground" (compact ferruginous quartz rock) connecting the much broader E. and W. continuations of a lode, yielding respectively copper and tin ores.

The freshest crystals have a vitreous lustre, and vary in colour from almost black to a light apple-green, their sections, however, being of a yellow brown to yellow. Where, as commonly, some superficial chemical change has taken place—seemingly into limonite—the colour is from red to brown or yellowish brown.