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Crocoite

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Crocoite

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Description
Locality: 
Adelaide Mine, Dundas, West Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.5 × 7.5 × 3 cm
Description

What would an Australian collection be without probably its most spectacular and most recognised mineral?  

This is a beautiful cabinet specimen of sparkling red terminated crocoite crystals from the Dundas district. The crystals have a dusting of an unknown mineral on one side providing an interesting effect. The matrix is a typical brown limonitic gossan.

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...
Gondwana Minerals