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Cotunnite

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Cotunnite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Vesuvius, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.4 × 5.6 × 3.9 cm
Description

Very good specimen, full of white cotunnite crystals on lava matrix - from the type locality. Cotunnite is a rare lead-chloride.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cotunnite

Formula: 
PbCl2
Strunz: 
3.DC.85
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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