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Crocoite With Gibbsite

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Crocoite With Gibbsite

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Description
Locality: 
Adelaide Mine, Dundas, West Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4 × 2.9 cm
Description

A nice combination piece of crocoite with gibbsite.  The crocoite crystals are mostly solid termiinating and have a gibbsite coating to the lower half.  There is also a very light dusting of mangenese oxide on the piece giving it a lovely sparkle when the light hits it.

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...

Gibbsite

Formula: 
Al(OH)3
Strunz: 
4.FE.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Richmond, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, USA

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