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Rosiaite & Valentinite & Bindheimite

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Rosiaite & Valentinite & Bindheimite

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Description
Locality: 
Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm
Description

specimen with some very good tabular colourless exagonal crystals of rosiaite with tufts of white crystals of valentinite with octhaedric brown crystals of bindheimite on matrix.

c. 138

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rosiaite

Formula: 
PbSb5+2O6
Strunz: 
4.DH.25
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy

Valentinite

Formula: 
Sb2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.55
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Les Chalanches Mine, Allemont, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France

Bindheimite

Formula: 
Pb2Sb25+O7
Strunz: 
4.DH.20
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4 - 4.5
Colour: 
Yellow, yellow-brown

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