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Penfieldite & Barstowite

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Penfieldite & Barstowite

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Description
Locality: 
Passa Limani Cove, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a vug of small prisms of penfieldite and fibrous barstowite. Both are rare minerals in the ancient slags. There are also hundreds of bright, scaly hyrdocerussite plates. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Penfieldite

Formula: 
Pb2Cl3(OH)
Strunz: 
3.DC.15
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Lavrion District slag localities, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece

Barstowite

Formula: 
Pb4Cl6(CO3)·H2O
Strunz: 
3.DC.95
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bounds Cliff, St Endellion, Wadebridge District, Cornwall, England, UK

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