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Caledonite & Linarite

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Caledonite & Linarite

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Description
Locality: 
Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 2.2 × 1.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a beautiful small sample with many vugs hosting sharp crystals of caledonite with smaller linarite clusters and minor cerussite. There is one particularly aesthetic cluster (photo 1). 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Caledonite

Formula: 
Pb5Cu2(SO4)3(CO3)(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BC.50
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Strathclyde (Lanarkshire), Scotland, UK

Linarite

Formula: 
PbCu(SO4)(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.BC.65
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Linares, Linares-La Carolina District, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain

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