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Caracolite

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Description
Locality: 
Ferruginosa Mine, Cabo de Palos Range, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3 × 2.7 cm
Description

Caracolite is a very rare lead sulfate chlorite. This is a very good and rich specimen with lustrous gemmy clear caracolite microcrystals on siderite-limonite matrix from a very old mine in Murcia, Spain.

Analysed specimen - with minor cotunnite crystals.

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

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Caracolite

Formula: 
Na3Pb2(SO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
7.BD.20
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Beatriz Mine, Caracoles, Sierra Gorda District, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile