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Diaboleite & Laurionite

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Diaboleite & Laurionite

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Description
Locality: 
Herzog Julius Smelter Slag Locality, Astfeld, Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 2 × 1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.05cm
Description

Blue crystals of diaboleite and colourless sprays of laurionite up to 0.5 mm large are sitting in vugs of slag.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diaboleite

Formula: 
Pb2CuCl2(OH)4
Strunz: 
3.DB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Blue
Streak: 
Blue
Type Locality: 
Higher Pitts Mine, Priddy, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, UK

Laurionite

Formula: 
PbCl(OH)
Strunz: 
3.DC.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece

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