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Cotunnite

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Cotunnite

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Description
Locality: 
Ferruginosa Mine, Cabo de Palos Range, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Description

Cotunnite is a very rare lead chlorite. This is a very good and rich specimen with lustrous white opaque prismatic sceletal cotunnite crystals partly covered by gemmy caracolite crystals on siderite-limonite matrix from a very old mine in Murcia, Spain.

Recently published article about the location is available for the buyer.

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