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Crocoite

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CR188116

Crocoite

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Berezovsk Mines, Ekaterinberg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 4 × 2.3 cm
Description

This is a very old specimen - collected 1886 by the famous Swedish mineralogist Gustav Flink - with a beautiful old label.

Deep red crocoite crystals in vugs and on a bed of green pyromorphite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Crocoite

Formula: 
Pb(CrO4)
Strunz: 
7.FA.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Tsvetnoi Mine, Uspenskaya Mt, Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...