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Redgillite & Leadhillite

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Redgillite & Leadhillite

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Description
Locality: 
Dolea, Brusturi, Bihor County, Romania
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 1 cm
Description

Olive-green botryodal crust of acicular crystals, and sprays of needles, and translucent hexagonal tabular leadhillite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Redgillite

Formula: 
Cu6(SO4)(OH)10·H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.70
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Silver Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK

Leadhillite

Formula: 
Pb4(CO3)2(SO4)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BF.40
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Susanna Mine (Glennery Scar Vein; Susanna Vein [Scar Vein]; Portobello Vein; Humby Vein; Lead Vein), Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Strathclyde (Lanarkshire), Scotland, UK

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