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Native Lead Berzeliite Pyrochroite & Hausmannite

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Native Lead Berzeliite Pyrochroite & Hausmannite

ex collection Krantz, ex collection Frank Hinterkeuser
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
16 × 11 × 5 cm
Weight: 
1 990.00gr
Description

Very rich old specimen with lots of dull gray native lead sheets on both sides and inside of the matrix with brown pyrochroite and jet black hausmannite. A microcrystalline crust of berzeliite on the back.

Old Krantz label attached.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lead

Formula: 
Pb
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
1.5
Streak: 
grey

Berzeliite

Formula: 
NaCa2(Mg,Mn2+)2(AsO4)3
Strunz: 
8.AC.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Pyrochroite

Formula: 
Mn(OH)2
Strunz: 
4.FE.05
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Pajsberg Mine, Pajsberg, Persberg district, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Hausmannite

Formula: 
Mn2+Mn3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.10
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Oehrenstock (Öhrenstock), Langewiesen, Ilmenau District, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany

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