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Paralaurionite & Nealite

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Paralaurionite & Nealite

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Description
Locality: 
Lavrion District Mines, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 4.8 × 2.6 cm
Description

Beautiful sharp and gemmy, tabular Paralaurionite crystals with orange hedgehogs of nealite crystals in vugs of an antique slag.

With georgiadesite microcrystals on some of the paralaurionite crystals.

Very good specimen - collected 1978

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Paralaurionite

Formula: 
PbCl(OH)
Strunz: 
3.DC.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Lavrion District slag localities, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece

Nealite

Formula: 
Pb4Fe2+(As3+O3)2Cl4·2H2O
Strunz: 
4.JD.05
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Lavrion District slag localities, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece