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Pellouxite

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Pellouxite

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Description
Locality: 
Buca Della Vena Mine, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Description

Pellouxite is one of the rarest oxy-chloro-sulfosalts from Buca della Vena mine, Italy. Tabular crystals embedded in the dolostone, associated with small masses of yellow sphalerite and tabular crystals of chlorite. A representative specimen of this very rare mineral.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pellouxite

Formula: 
(Cu,Ag)Pb10Sb12S27O(Cl,S)0.6
Strunz: 
2.JB.35d
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Black
Streak: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Buca della Vena Mine, Ponte Stazzemese, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
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