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Diaboleite

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Diaboleite

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Description
Locality: 
Mammoth - St Anthony Mine, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.6 × 2.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small thumbnail sample with excellent crystals of diaboleite on quartz with minor cerussite and wherryite. Former Dan Behnke collection and comes with two original slides taken by Dan and his original collection index card. 

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Diaboleite

Formula: 
Pb2CuCl2(OH)4
Strunz: 
3.DB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Blue
Streak: 
Blue
Type Locality: 
Higher Pitts Mine, Priddy, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, UK

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