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Tsumebite

Type Locality - RARE
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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1.2 × 0.7 cm
Description

Small but very good tsumebite specimen with large intensive green crystals on minor matrix.

This is one of very few analysed Tsumebite specimen - most of the "tsumebite" on the mineral marked turned out as Arsentsumebite.

SEM / EDS and XRD confirmed specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tsumebite

Formula: 
Pb2Cu(PO4)(SO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BG.05
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia