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Ottoite Markcooperite & Housleyite

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Ottoite Markcooperite & Housleyite

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Description
Locality: 
Southwest Cut, Otto Mountain, Baker, San Bernardino County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.3 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a fracture surface covered in numerous clusters of small white ottoite crystals. Associated are minute orange cubes of markcooperite and there is one minute bladed single green crystal of housleyite. There is also calcite, chlorargyrite and several unknowns on the smaple. This is a very rich ottoite specimen!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ottoite

Formula: 
Pb2TeO5
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Markcooperite

Formula: 
Pb2(UO2)(TeO6)
Hardness: 
3.0 - 0.0
Colour: 
Orange
Type Locality: 
Aga Mine, Otto Mountain, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Housleyite

Formula: 
Pb6CuTe6+4O18(OH)2
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

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