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Thorikosite

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Thorikosite

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Description
Locality: 
Thorikos Slag Locality, Thorikos, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Type locality specimen of thorikosite (as indicated by label) microcrystals associated with microcrystals of possibly ecdemite, blixite, and type locality paralaurionite in small vugs.  The acicular crystals of thorikosite are white, thus possibly paralaurionite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Thorikosite

Formula: 
Pb3Cl2(OH)(SbO3,AsO3)
Strunz: 
3.DC.40
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Thorikos Bay slag locality, Thorikos area, Lavrion District slag localities, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece

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