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Lautenthalite

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Lautenthalite

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Description
Locality: 
Meadowfoot Smelter Slag Locality, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm
Description

Small piece of slug featuring several vugs with many different crystals of secondary copper mineralization.

Among these, the most noticeable are groups of tabular blue-green microcrystals of Lautenthalite, an extremely rare Pb-Cu sulphate, known only in very few localities in the world, very well represented in this case. 

Former Sandro Maggia collecion, with label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lautenthalite

Formula: 
PbCu4(SO4)2(OH)6·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DE.70
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Lautenthal smelter (Silberhütte smelter) slag locality, Lautenthal, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

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