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Hemimorphite Cerussite & Galena

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Hemimorphite Cerussite & Galena

ex collection Wolfram Winter
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Description
Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5.7 × 5.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Description

Very good specimen with a large hemimorphite crystal (0.6 cm), smaller cerussite and something that looks like plumboan calcite to me. With galena in the matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hemimorphite

Formula: 
Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BD.10
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Băiţa Mining District (Baita Bihor; Rézbánya), Nucet, Bihor Co., Romania

Cerussite

Formula: 
PbCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey

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